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Wei  meaning, ‘local image,’ is equally unsatisfactory, although wîch- in  wîchgrâve, ‘municipal judge,’ and wîchvride, ‘municipal peace,’ certainly appears in the compound;   wîc, ‘town, place,’  wijk, ‘quarter of a town,’  wîh(hh), ‘town, city.’ The signification of the second component cannot be explained from   ( bilede). There existed beside and  bil-lîch, ‘suitable, right, an  *bilida, ‘law, jurisdiction,’ which appears only in  unbilde (see ); hence  wîchbilde meant first of all ‘municipal jurisdiction,’ and then ‘municipal territory’.   ,, ‘groin’; the term was first recorded in the 14th , denoting the tender parts of the body between the ribs and loins.  ,, ‘to yield, give away, waver,’ from the  wîchen,  wîhhan,  ; corresponding to the   ýkva, víkja,  wîkan,  wijken. The root wī̆q, ‘to yield,’  ‘to make room for some one, give way,’ appears also in  and. Its earlier form wī̆g (in vij, ‘to yield, flee’) is a variant of wī̆k, which is indicated by  vices, ‘change,’ and  by  εἴκω, ‘to yield.’  also.  ,, ‘agriot cherry,’ from the  wîhsel,  wîhsila,. The character of the word is undoubted; in spite of its absence in the other dialects, it is probably derived from the  period (hence  visciola?). It is connected with višnja,  vyszna, ‘agriot cherry.’ The name of the river Vistula, ‘’ ( Vistula,  Wistle), has nothing to do with the word, nor with ,, ‘elflock, plica Polonica.’ The latter is said to have come from Poland, where matted hair is often produced by some disease;   wieszczyce, ‘elflock.’   , see.    (1.),, ‘willow,’ from the  wîde,  wîda, ;   vîðer,  wîðig,  withy (isolated  and  dialects seem to lengthen the old ĭ in the accented syllable). Prehistoric wī̆t-, ‘willow,’ is indicated also by the  ἱτέα and Lit. żilwytis, ‘grey willow.’ An Aryan root wī̆, ‘pliant, capable of being twisted,’ has been assumed, and the word compared also with  vîtis,  ‘vine, tendril,’  viti ( výti), ‘to turn, plait.’

' (2.),, ‘pasture, pasture-land, from weide,  weida, , ‘fodder, food, place for grazing, the search for food and fodder (chase, fishing).’ Allied to  veiðr, ‘chase, fishing,’  wâð, ‘chase,’ and also to  ', ‘to graze, pasture,’  weiden,  weidôn, ‘to forage’;  wiedeman, ‘hunter,’   ( the proper name  with , and also , from  weidenœre, ‘hunter, sportsman’). If the cognates be traced back to a root wai, ‘to forage,’ vê-nâri, ‘to chase, hunt,’ may be connected with it;  also the  root vî, ‘to fly at, attack something, take food.’  farther, to which ,  is allied.   ,, ‘willow herb, only; so called from its willow-like leaves; the term is formed like  and.  ,, ‘brave, stout, vigorous,’ from weidelī̆ch, weidenī̆ch, ‘lively, pert, distinguished, grand’;  ‘befitting the chase,’ from  (2); see the latter also for. ,, ‘to wind, reel,’ from weifen,  , ‘to swing, wind on a reel,’ a factitive of  wîfen,  , ‘to swing, wind.’ It is based on a  root wī̆p, ‘to turn,’ which appears also in  weipan, ‘to wreathe’ (waips, ‘wreath’); with this root  vibrare, ‘to brandish, vibrate,’ is  cognate. Allied to and.  ,, ‘warrior, hero,’ from the  and  wîgant, ; not an inherited term, but borrowed in the last century from  literature. It is a West form for ‘warrior’;   wîgend,  wîgand; properly a   of the nearly obsolete (in West ) root wī̆g, ‘to fight’ (  weihan and *wigan, , ‘to fight’). This is identical with the Aryan root wī̆k, ‘to be strong, bold,’ which appears in vincere, ‘to conquer,’  fichim, ‘to fight,’ as well as in  vĕkŭ, ‘strength’ ( to  veig, ‘strength’);   wikrus, ‘brisk.’ Allied to  and.  ,, ‘to refuse, deny,’ from weigern,  weigarôn, ‘to oppose, refuse’; allied to  weigar, ‘foolhardy,’  perhaps ‘obstinate, resisting.’