Old English · noun
weoce
Normalised wēoce
- Part of speech
- noun, feminine
- Declension
- weak n-stem
- IPA
- /ˈwe͜oː.ke/
- Syllables
- ˈwe͜oː · ke (2 syllables)
- Modern English
- wickcandle
Meaning
-
wick (of a candle)
Declension
All forms (4)
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *weukā (“flax bundle, wick”)
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