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Weg from the equivalent wed; allied to.   ,, ‘way, road,’ from the  and  wëc ( wëges), ; corresponding to , , and  weg,  way, and the   wigs. A common derivative of the  root weg, ‘to march, drive, ride’;  via, ‘way,’ is connected with the corresponding  vehere;   and. Allied to ,, ‘away, gone,’ from enwëc for in wëc,  ‘on the way’; corresponding to  weg,  onwëg,  away. —   , ‘plantain,’ from the  wëgebreite,  wëgabreita;   wegbree,  wëgbrœ̂de,  weybread; an  term. —  ,, ‘on account of, with regard to,’ from the  von...wëgen (with intervening genit.); see  and. —  ,, ‘plantain,’ from the  wëgerī̆ch,  wëgarī̆h, ;  ‘sovereign of the road,’ formed from  rîk, ‘king’ (see ).  ,, in , ‘to move,’ from wëgen,  wëgan,  , ‘to move,’ with which the corresponding causative,  węgen, węcken (from *wagjan), ‘to cause to move,’ was confused; corresponding to  gawigan, ‘to move.’ The primary meaning of the widely diffused Aryan root wegh, preserved in  and , was ‘to move on, march, drive, ride,’ from which the signification ‘to carry, move,’ was afterwards developed in. root vah ‘to proceed, drive, ride,’ and the  vehere,  vesti. ,, ‘woe! alas!’ from the  and  wê; corresponding to  wai,  wâ,  woe. From the  wai is derived the   and  guai ( ouais). As in the case of vae ( οἷ),  is to be regarded as an instinctive sound. The ,, ‘plaint, misery, woe,’ seems to be based on the ;  , , and  wê ( wêwes), and  wêwo, , wêva, , ‘woe, pain, sorrow,’ and the borrowed  guajo, ‘sorrow.’ See  and. ,, ‘to blow,’ from the  wœjen (wœn),  wâjan (wâen),  ; corresponding to  waaijen,  wâwan,  waian, ‘to blow.’ The originally strong (as in  and ) verbal root wê, ‘to blow,’ is found in other  Aryan languages;   ἄημι, ‘to blow’ (root ϝη),  vějati, ‘to blow,’  root vâ, ‘to blow.’ Allied to.  ',, ‘defence, resistance, protection,’ from węr,  węrî, , ‘defence, fortification’; allied like  , , ‘dam, weir,’ late  węr, , ‘weir,’ to ', ‘to protect, defend; hinder, prevent, oppose, forbid.’ This verb is from  węrn, węrgen,  węrian, węren,  , ‘to hinder, protect, defend’;   warjan, ‘to forbid, hinder,’  werian, ‘to hinder.’ On account of the meaning, its connection with  (root wor, ‘to look on,’ in  όράω) is not so apparent as its  kinship with the  root vṛ, ‘to check, restrain, hinder.’   ,, ‘woman, wife,’ from the  and  wîp (b), ; corresponding to  wîf,  wijf,  wîf,  wife. If is wanting in, certainly not by accident (the word used is qinô, qêns). The term wîbo- is specifically, while qinô is prehistorically connected with  γυνή,  gnâ, ‘woman.’ Its kinship with  οἴφειν is dubious; it is more probably related to  vip, ‘inspirited, inwardly excited’ (of priests), to which  weibôn, ‘to stagger, be unstable,’ is allied. Hence the Teutons must have coined the term (wîbo- from wîpó-), because in woman they venerated sanctum aliquid et providum. In that case the remarkable gender might perhaps be explained as ‘inspiration, something inspired.’   ,, ‘sergeant, apparitor,’ from the  weibel,  weibil, ; allied to  weiben, ‘to move to and fro.’ The variant  (in ) is derived from  or East.  ,, ‘soft, tender, impressible,’ from the  weich,  weih (hh); corresponding to  wêk,  week,  wâc,  veikr, veykr (whence  weak), ‘soft, tender.’ A derivative of the root of  (hence ,  ‘yielding, giving way’).  ,, ‘outskirts of a town, precincts,’ from wîchbilde, , ‘outskirts of a town, jurisdiction over a town and its precincts.’ The origin of this compound, first occurring in the 13th , is disputed. The assumption that it signifies ‘image of a saint’ (  for  wîch, ‘holy’), does not suffice to explain the actual meaning. The suggested <section end="Weichbild" />