wancol

== Old English == === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *wankul. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈwɑn.kol/, [ˈwɑŋ.kol] === Adjective === wancol unstable, unsteady, uncertain, fickle, fluctuating, tottering, vacillating, weak Hió hit gecýþ self mid hire hwurfulnesse ðæt hió biþ swíþe wancol. ― She makes herself known with her vacillations that she is very fickle. ==== Declension ==== ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: wankel, wankill, wankille (Northern)English: wankle (dialectal)⇒ English: wonkyMiddle Scots: *wankillScots: wankle (hapax) === References === John R. Clark Hall (1916), “wancol”, in A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎[1], 2nd edition, New York: Macmillan Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “wancol”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎[2], second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.