wiking

From Old Norse víkingr (“bay's dweller”), from Proto-Germanic *wīkingaz. Doublet of wiciądz (“hero, warrior”) and witeź (“hero, valiant knight”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvi.kiŋk/

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• Rhymes: -ikiŋk
• Syllabification: wi‧king

wiking m pers

1. (historical) Viking (one of the Scandinavian or other Northern European seafaring warriors that raided (and then settled) the British Isles and other parts of Europe in the 8^th to the 11^th centuries and, according to many historians, were the first Europeans to reach North America)

   Hypernym: wojownik

• wiking in Polish dictionaries at PWN