出典:Wiktionary
出典:『Wiktionary』 (2025/05/10 00:08 UTC 版)
From an unattested English dialectal word *weak (“moist; moisture”) + -y. Compare voky, woky.
*Weak is from 中期英語 *weke, *wak, *wok, from Old Norse vǫkr (“moist; damp; wet”) and Old Norse vǫkvi, vǫkva (“moisture; juice”), from Proto-Germanic *wakwaz (“moist”) and *wakwô, *wakwijô (“moisture; wetness; open water; icehole”), from Proto-Indo-European *wegʷ- (“wet”).
weaky (comparative weakier, superlative weakiest) (UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland)