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Old English English English wiċċian (be)witch witch Frankish <*wikkon> Scots wich German "witch" wicken West Germanic Old High German <*wikkōną> <*wikkōn> Old English English Middle English English Germanic wiċċa Wicca wicke wicked <*wikkōną> West Germanic <*wikkô> Old High German Middle High German wicko wicker "soothsayer, magician" Sanskrit िवनिक Proto-Indo-European <vinakti> <*wiknéh₂-ti> German "to separate, to discern, to judge" Weihnachten "Christmas" Indo-Aryan Indo-Iranian Gothic �� German German <weihs> weih- Weihwasser Proto-Indo-European "holy, sacred" "holy water" <*wenéyk-ti> East Germanic Proto-Indo-European <*weyk-> Old High German Frankish Dutch "to separate, to choose, to consecrate" wierook wīh <*wīrōk> "incense" Proto-Indo-European <*weyko-s> Germanic "chosen, consecrated" <*wīhaz> West Germanic "holy, consecrated" West Germanic Old High German <*wīharaukiz> wīhrouh German "incense" "incense" Weihrauch "incense" Gothic Danish �� vie <weihan> "to devote, to dedicate, to wed" East Germanic "to hallow, to consecrate" Germanic <*wīhijaną> "to hallow, to consecrate" Swedish Icelandic North Germanic viga Old Norse vígja "to wed, to devote" vígja "to consecrate, to inaugurate, to ordain" Proto-Indo-European <*wikmós> "the act of choosing, that which was chosen" Frankish Old Swedish Finnish West Germanic <*wīen> vihkiä vighia "to wed, to ordain, to consecrate, to devote, to inaugurate" Old High German Dutch wīhen wijden Dutch "to dedicate, to inaugurate, to bless" wijwater "holy water" Old Norse vé "shrine" German Germanic weihen <*wīhą> North Germanic "to consecrate, to ordain" "holy place or thing" Old Norse Vé "one of the brothers of Odin" West Germanic Italic Old English Old English wēoh wēofod "idol, image" "altar" Italian Western Romance vittima "victim" Latin French victima victime "sacrifice, sacrificial victim" "victim" English victim Spanish víctima "victim" Latin Romanian victimō Eastern Romance a vătăma "I offer as sacrifice" "to injure, to damage".

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