cwic

== Middle English == === Adjective === cwic (Early Middle English) alternative form of quyk == Old English == === Alternative forms === cuc, cucu, cwicu, cwuc, cwucu === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *kwiku, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (“alive”). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /kwik/ Rhymes: -ik === Adjective === cwic alive; live, living Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Manuscript E, year 1009 mentally agile; intelligent, keen ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== healfcwic cwicseolfor ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: quyk, quic, quicke, quik, quike, quikke, quycke, quyke, quykke, qwicke, qwik, qwyck, qwyk, qwyke, cwic, cwich, cwick, cwuc (Early Middle English), qwhyke, weke, whik, whike, whikk, whyk, whyke, whykke (Northern)English: quick (dialectal wick)→ Ido: quikScots: quick, queek