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English

Etymology

Via Pijin from Vangunu, a Solomon Islands language

Noun

vika (plural vikas)

1. A large, tree-dwelling rodent (Uromys vika) found in the Solomon Islands

   Synonym: Vangunu giant rat

Translations

References

• Uromys vika on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Uromys vika on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Uromys vika on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• Vaik, kiva

Esperanto

Alternative forms

• vi?a

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vika/
• Hyphenation: vi?ka
• Rhymes: -ika

Adjective

vika (accusative singular vikan, plural vikaj, accusative plural vikajn)

1. Wiccan

Related terms

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse vika, from Proto-Germanic *wik?, from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vi?ka/
• Rhymes: -i?ka

Noun

vika f (genitive singular viku, plural vikur)

1. week

Declension

Derived terms

• vikuskifti (“weekend”)

Finnish

(index vi)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??ik?/, [??ik?]
• Rhymes: -ik?
• Syllabification: vi?ka

Etymology 1

From Proto-Finnic *vika. Cognate with Estonian viga.

Noun

vika

1. flaw, malfunction, failure, problem

   Koneessa on vika.

   There is a malfunction in the machine.

   Kun hän näki vian, hän vain kohautti olkapäitään ja alkoi korjata sitä.

   When he saw the problem, he just shrugged and started fixing it.

2. fault

   Se on sinun vikasi.

   It is your fault.

3. stain or flaw in character
4. wrong (adjective).

   Älä valita! Ruoassasi ei ole mitään vikaa.

   Stop complaining! There's nothing wrong with your food.

   Kännykässäni on jotain vikaa.

   Something is wrong with my cellphone.

Declension

Derived terms

• viallinen
• vikaantua
• vioittaa

Compounds

Etymology 2

Colloquial form of viimeinen (“last”).

Adjective

vika

1. (colloquial) the last

Declension

Anagrams

• kiva

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse vika, from Proto-Germanic *wik?, from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?v??ka/
• Rhymes: -??ka

Noun

vika f (genitive singular viku, nominative plural vikur)

1. week

Declension

Derived terms

• vikulega
• vikulegur
• vikudagur
• dymbilvika
• kyrravika
• dymbildagavika
• páskavika

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *vika, possibly from Proto-Germanic *swik? (“deceit”). Cognates include Finnish vika and Estonian viga.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vika/

Noun

vika (genitive vian, partitive vikkaa)

1. fault
2. flaw
3. defect

References

• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?^[2]

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• viken

Noun

vika m or f

1. definite feminine singular of vik

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse víkin f, definite form of Old Norse vík f.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??i?c?ç?], [??i?ç?], [??i?k?] (example of pronunciation)

Noun

vika f

1. definite singular of vik

Etymology

From Old Norse vika (“week”), from Proto-Germanic *wik? (“turn, succession”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind”). Related to Proto-Germanic *w?kan? (“to bend, yield”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [²???k?], [²??k??], [²??k?], /²v??ka/ (example of pronunciation)

Noun

vika f (definite singular vika, indefinite plural viker or vikor, definite plural vikene or vikone)

1. a week; form removed with the spelling reform of 1938; superseded by veke

Verb

vika (present tense vik, past tense veik, supine vike, past participle viken, present participle vikande, imperative vik)

1. Alternative form of vike

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wik?, from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”).

Noun

vika f

1. week

Descendants

• Icelandic: vika
• Faroese: vika
• Norn: voga
• Norwegian Nynorsk: veke, vika
• Norwegian: (dialectal) viku, vyku, vuku, væka
• Old Swedish: vika
  • Swedish: vecka
• Old Danish: uka, uku, wiku
  • Danish: uge
    • Norwegian Bokmål: uke
• Westrobothnian: viku
• Jamtish: vuku
• Scanian: uga
• Gutnish: vike, vika, viku, vikå
• Elfdalian: wiku

References

• vika in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Old Swedish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vika, from Proto-Germanic *wik?.

Noun

vika f

1. week

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: vecka

Etymology 2

From Old Norse víkja, from Proto-Germanic *w?kwan?

Verb

v?ka

1. to move, to change direction
2. to fold
3. to retreat
4. to yield

Declension

Descendants

• Swedish: vika

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?îka/
• Hyphenation: vi?ka

Noun

v?ka f (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. shouting, screaming

Declension

Related terms

• vikati

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish v?ka, from Old Norse víkja, víkva, from Proto-Germanic *w?kwan?.

The adverb in the phrase ge vika comes from Low German wike gewen, where the noun wike means eftergift, flykt.

Pronunciation

Adverb

vika

1. (in the expression: ge vika) to give in, to fold (under pressure), to give up

Verb

vika (present viker, preterite vek, supine vikt or vikit, imperative vik)

1. to fold
2. (colloquial) to dedicate (time), to designate a period of time for a certain action

3. (colloquial) to dedicate, to set aside for a special person or a special use

4. (reflexive) to give up, to give in (under pressure)

5. (reflexive) to bend (by laughing too much)

6. (reflexive) to sleep, to go to bed

7. (transitive) (viker ut) to unfold, to open a foldout
8. (reflexive) (viker ut) to expose oneself as a (nude) centerfold, to appear (nude) in a magazine or online

Conjugation

Related terms

• veck
• vik
• vikning

References

• vika in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Anagrams

• kiva

Xhosa

Etymology

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Verb

-vika^?

1. (transitive) to avoid

Inflection

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