Page:An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language.djvu/418

Wim willio, wil,  willa,  will; an abstract from, which see. Allied to ,, ‘willing, voluntary, ready,’ from willec,  willîg. —  ,, ‘to accede to, grant, humour,’ from late willevarn. ,, ‘welcome, acceptable’; ‘welcome, reception’; from  willekumen. Corresponding to welkom,  wilcumen,  welcome, whence  wilecome (a form of greeting) was borrowed.  ,, ‘option, discretion, caprice,’ from willekür, , ‘free choice, free will’; gee  and.  ,, ‘to swarm, teem with,’ from late  wimmen, ‘to be astir, swarm.’ From the same root wem (wam) are derived the   wimidôn and wimizzen (wamezzen). wiuman, ‘to swarm with,’ seems to be a reduplicated present of the same root wen (we-wm-). ,, ‘to whimper,’ from wimmer, , ‘whining,’ beside which occurs an   gewammer, with a different stage of gradation; recent imitative forms.  , and, ‘pennon, flag, streamer,’ from  wimpel,  and , ‘banner, flag, naval ensign, kerchief,’  wimpal, ‘frontlet, veil.’ Allied to  guimpe ( guimple), ‘wimple, stomacher,’  wimpel,  winpel, wimpel,  wimple. The exact relation of these apparently compound words to one another is obscure, since the dialects have mp coinciding with  (we should have expected mf in ). Since it is not yet known in which group it was borrowed, nothing definite can be said concerning its early history. The evolution in meaning is similar to that of.   ,, ‘eyelash,’ from the  wintbrâ, wintbrâwe,  wintbrâwa, ;  ‘the winding eyebrow.’   ,, ‘wind,’ from the  wint (d),  wint, ; corresponding to  winds,  and  wind (to which window from  windauga,  ‘wind eye,’ is allied),  and  wind, ‘wind.’ The common  windo-, from Aryan wē̆ntó-, is identical in form with the   ventus, and  vãta, , ‘wind’ ( also  ἀήτης?); they are derivatives of the present  wē̆-nt- of the root wê, ‘to blow’ (see ); for the form of the word. While this word extends beyond  the terms for the chief directions of the wind are peculiar to that group (see, , &c.).   ,, ‘windlass, winch,’ from the  winde,  winta,  —   ,, ‘swaddling clothes, napkin,’ from the  winde,  wintila, ;  ‘means for winding about.’ —  ,, ‘to wind, reel, twine,’ from winden,  wintan,  , ‘to wind, turn, wrap’;   windan, ‘to turn’ (biwindan, ‘to wrap up’),  winden,  windan,  to wind,  windan. For the causative of this strong verbal root wind, ‘to turn, wrap,’ see ; other derivatives are,. There are no certain cognates in non- ghindare,  guinder, ‘to hoist,’ are borrowed from.  ',, ', , ‘greyhound, harrier,’ from the  wintbracke, wintspil; these compounds are tautological forms for  and  wint, ‘greyhound.’ It is probably not connected with , though the two words are instinctively associated. On account of the limited area of its diffusion, the prehistoric form cannot be discovered. Its kinship with ( hundo-, from hwundo-) is perhaps possible (, from hwindo-?); in that case the assonance with  must have caused the differentiation. <section end="Windhund" /> <section begin="Windsbraut" /> ,, ‘hurricane, tornado,’ from the  windes brût,  wintes brût, ; a remarkable formation, which is usually referred to mythological ideas. Yet and  brût in this compound might be cognate with  brûs, , if this were connected with pre- bhrût-to-. <section end="Windsbraut" /> <section begin="Wingert" /> ,, ‘vineyard,’ from wī̆ngarte,  wîngarto, ;  also  vineyard;  ‘wine-garden.’ For the shortening of  and  î,. <section end="Wingert" /> <section begin="Wink" /> ',, ‘sign, wink, nod, hint,’ from the  winc (k),  winch, ; allied to ', , ‘to wink, beckon, nod,’  winken,  ,  winchan,  , ‘to move sidewards, totter, nod, wink’; corresponding to  wincian,  to wink. If ‘to totter along, move with a sideward motion,’ is the primary meaning of the root wink, the Aryan root may be the same as that of  (wī̆g, wī̆k). Related to the following word. <section end="Wink" />