wicing

Meaning

pirate

Philippe ġeþūhte æfter þām þæt hē on lande ne meahte þām folce mid ġiefum ġecwēman þe him on simle wǣron mid winnende, ac hē sċipu ġegaderode and wīċingas wurdon, and sōna æt ānum ċierre ān hund and hundeahtatiġ ċēapsċipa ġefēngon.

After that, Philip concluded that on land, the gifts he awarded the common people who were always fighting on his side would never be enough to satisfy them, so he gathered ships and they became pirates, and very quickly captured 180 trading ships.
late 9th century, translation of Orosius’ History Against the Pagans

Viking

unknown author, Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, manuscript C, year 886

That same year, King Alfred sent a naval fleet from Cent to East Anglia. As soon as they reached the mouth of the Stour, they met sixteen ships of Vikings, fought them, seized all the ships, and killed the men inside. When they turned back homeward with the spoils, they met a large naval fleet of Vikings and then fought them the same day, and the Danes won the battle.

Declension of wicing
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	wīcing	wīcingas
Accusative	wīcing	wīcingas
Genitive	wīcinges	wīcinga
Dative	wīcinge	wīcingum

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Etymology

It is unlikely that this word was borrowed or calqued from Old Norse víkingr (“pirate”) (itself from Old Norse vík (“inlet”) + -ingr (“one belonging to”, “one who frequents”)), since the Old English word predates the Old Norse word by approximately two centuries (the Oxford English Dictionary even suggests the possibility that the word entered North Germanic from the Anglo-Frisian area). In any case, equivalent to wīc + -ing. Compare Old Frisian wītsing (“pirate, viking”) and Old Saxon wīking (“pirate”), which are formed identically. The North Sea Germanic form, existing in Old English since a…

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