weck

From German Weck, Wecken (“bread roll”).

• IPA^(key): /wɛk/
• Rhymes: -ɛk

weck (plural wecks)

1. Kummelweck bread.

• beef on weck

From Old High German (*)wīd, northern variant of wīt, from Proto-Germanic *wīdaz. The word underwent the regular Ripuarian velarisation -īd- → -igd- → -eg-.

• IPA^(key): /ʋek/

weck (masculine wegge, feminine and plural weck or wegge, comparative wegger, superlative et weckste)

1. (most of Ripuarian) far, wide, distant

   Nemm et Auto, der Wääch es ze weck für ze loofe.

   Take the car, the distance is too far to walk.

• wick (Kölsch), wiet (western and northernmost Ripuarian)
• witt (Siegerland, otherwise scattered compromise form)
• weit (most of Moselle Franconian)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /ʋɛk/

weck

1. inflection of wecke:
   1. singular imperative
   2. third-person singular present

• wäck (variant spelling)

• IPA^(key): /vɛk/

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• Homophone: weg

weck

1. singular imperative of wecken

Shortened from Middle High German enwec, from Old High German in weg. Compare German weg, Dutch weg, Norwegian Bokmål vekk.

weck

1. away