Wickel

German

Etymology

From Middle High German wickel, wickelin, from Old High German wickilī, wickilīn, diminutive of Old High German wiohha, from Proto-West Germanic *weukā (“flax bundle, wick”), from Proto-Indo-European *weg- (“to weave”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈvɪkəl/, [ˈvɪ.kl̩], [ˈʋɪ-], [-kəl]
Hyphenation: Wi‧ckel
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Noun

Wickel m (strong, genitive Wickels, plural Wickel)

(medicine) poultice, cataplasm, compress
(colloquial, Austria) quarrel, dispute

Declension

Declension of Wickel [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Wickel	die	Wickel
genitive	eines	des	Wickels	der	Wickel
dative	einem	dem	Wickel	den	Wickeln
accusative	einen	den	Wickel	die	Wickel

Derived terms

Related terms

Wieche

Further reading

“Wickel” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
“Wickel” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
“Wickel” in Duden online

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