וויקלען

Yiddish

Etymology

From Middle High German wickeln (to wind, wrap around), denominative of wickel, from Old High German wickilī (fibres wound around the distaff), from Proto-Germanic *wīkaną (to bend), from Proto-Indo-European *weg- (to weave). Compare German wickeln.

Verb

וויקלען • (viklen) (past participle געוויקלט (geviklt))

  1. to wrap
    Synonyms: גאַרטלען (gartlen), הילן (hiln), רינגלען (ringlen), ראָלן (roln)
    בײַ אינדיאַנער, וויקלט מען די קינדער אין אַ פּאַפּוס.
    bay indyaner, viklt men di kinder in a papus.
    Among Native Americans, children are wrapped in a papoose.
  2. (reflexive) to wind, spin

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • אויסוויקלען (oysviklen, to unwrap)
  • אויפֿוויקלען (oyfviklen, to roll up, to wind up)
  • איבערוויקלען (iberviklen, to rewrap)
  • אײַנוויקלען (aynviklen, to wrap, bundle up, swaddle)
  • אין די וויקעלעך (in di vikelekh, in the beginning stages)
  • אַנטוויקלונג (antviklung, development, evolution)
  • אַנטוויקלען (antviklen, to develop, unfold, evolve)
  • אַנטוויקלען זיך (antviklen zikh, to develop, evolve)
  • אַנטוויקלער (antvikler, a developer)
  • אַרומוויקלען (arumviklen, to wreath, wrap)
  • געוויקלטע קרויט (geviklte kroyt, stuffed cabbage)
  • וויק (vik, a wrap)
  • וויקל (vikl, a spin)
  • וויקלטרעפּ (vikltrep, an escalator)
  • וויקלען אין וואַטע (viklen in vate, to care for)
  • וויקלקינד (viklkind, baby, infant (a swaddled child))
  • וויקלקרײַז (viklkrayz, a cycle)
  • וויקלשנור (viklshnur, a legging, long swaddling cloth)
  • וויקעלע (vikele, a diaper)
  • פֿאַרוויקלט (farviklt, wrapped, involved, complicated, intricate)
  • פֿאַרוויקלען (farviklen, to entangle, to complicate)
  • פֿאַרוויקלעניש (farviklenish, entanglement)
  • פֿונאַנדערוויקלען (funanderviklen, to unwrap)
  • צעוויקלען (tseviklen, to unroll, unfurl, deploy)
  • שפּעט־אַנטוויקלער (shpet-antvikler, a late bloomer)
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