vik

From Old Norse víkja (“to move, curve, bend”).

• IPA^(key): /viːk/

vik n (genitive singular viks, plural vik)

1. little bend
2. movement to the side

   til viks

   apart, aside

From Old Norse vík, from Proto-Germanic *wīkō.

vik f or m (definite singular vika or viken, indefinite plural viker, definite plural vikene)

1. an inlet (arm of the sea)

vik

1. imperative of vike

• “vik” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse vík.

vik f (definite singular vika, indefinite plural vikar or viker, definite plural vikane or vikene)

1. an inlet (arm of the sea)

From vike.

vik n (definite singular viket, indefinite plural vik, definite plural vika)

1. a (small) deviation
2. how bent the sawtooth is in relation to its sawblade

• avvik

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

vik

1. inflection of vika and vike (strong verbs):
   1. present tense
   2. imperative
2. imperative of vika and vikja (weak verbs)

• “vik” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Old Norse vík, from Proto-Germanic *wīkō.

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• Rhymes: -iːk

vik c

1. (geography) a bay, an inlet, (in the British sense) a creek (a (relatively long and narrow) inlet from the sea or a lake, as might instead and more specifically be called a fjord (“fjord”) if surrounded by cliffs (and substantially long))

   Synonym: (obsolete) baj

   Vi bor längst in i viken

   We live at the far end of the bay/creek

   segla in i viken

   sail into the bay/creek

   simma över viken

   swim across the bay/creek

   en mysig liten vik

   a cozy little bay (might imply a short, "stumpy" but still more or less vik-shaped bay in this case)

   Det bor några vikingar i viken

   There are some Vikings living in the bay/creek (possibly though controversially related)

2. a gulf (in the names of some gulfs that are shaped more or less like a vik – the intuition is not normally of huge geographical features otherwise)

Might sometimes be a bit fuzzier or reflect conditions with less post-glacial rebound in place names. The description above matches the intuition otherwise.

• Bottniska viken (“the Gulf of Bothnia”) (vik-shaped)
• Finska viken (“the Gulf of Finland”) (vik-shaped)
• Persiska viken (“the Persian Gulf”) (more vik-shaped compared to Mexikanska golfen (“the Gulf of Mexico”))
• havsvik (a vik from the sea, specifically)

• Vikbolandet
• Viken
• viking

• bukt
• fjord
• fjärd
• golf
• sund
• veck

vik

1. imperative of vika

• vik in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• vik in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• vik in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

• kiv

• IPA^(key): /vik˧/

vik

1. (transitive) to launch

• Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 40