veck
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Swedish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Swedish vik, from Old Norse *vik (“bend, curve”), related to dialectal Norwegian Nynorsk vik, Faroese vik, Icelandic vik. Compare Swedish vika, Old Norse víkva (“to yield, weaken”), vikna (“to give in, bend”).
Pronunciation
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Noun
veck n
- a more or less sharp fold (in something soft, like fabric, paper, or skin); a fold, a crease, a pleat, etc.
- ta bort skrynklor och veck med ett strykjärn
- remove wrinkles and creases with an iron
- lägga pannan i djupa veck
- furrow one's brow [idiomatic, when thinking hard]
- (literally, “lay one's forehead in deep folds”)
- (geology) a fold
Declension
Declension of veck
Derived terms
See also
- fåra (“furrow”)
- plissera (“pleat”)
- plissé (“pleating”)
- skrynkla
- snörpa
- rynka (“wrinkle”)
- rynkad (“gathered”)
- vika