וויקלען

Yiddish

Etymology

From Middle High German wickeln (“to wind, wrap around”), denominative of wickel, from Old High German wickilī (“fibres wound around the distaff”), from Proto-Germanic *wīkaną (“to bend”), from Proto-Indo-European *weg- (“to weave”). Compare German wickeln.

Verb

וויקלען • (viklen) (past participle געוויקלט‎ (geviklt))

  1. to wrap
    Synonyms: גאַרטלען‎ (gartlen), הילן‎ (hiln), רינגלען‎ (ringlen), ראָלן‎ (roln)
    ‏בײַ אינדיאַנער, וויקלט מען די קינדער אין אַ פּאַפּוס.‎‎
    bay indyaner, viklt men di kinder in a papus.
    Among Native Americans, children are wrapped in a papoose.
  2. (reflexive) to wind, spin

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • אויסוויקלען‎ (oysviklen, “to unwrap”)
  • אויפֿוויקלען‎ (oyfviklen, “to roll up, to wind up”)
  • איבערוויקלען‎ (iberviklen, “to rewrap”)
  • אײַנוויקלען‎ (aynviklen, “to wrap, bundle up, swaddle”)
  • אין די וויקעלעך‎ (in di vikelekh, “in the beginning stages”)
  • אַנטוויקלונג‎ (antviklung, “development, evolution”)
  • אַנטוויקלען‎ (antviklen, “to develop, unfold, evolve”)
  • אַנטוויקלען זיך‎ (antviklen zikh, “to develop, evolve”)
  • אַנטוויקלער‎ (antvikler, “a developer”)
  • אַרומוויקלען‎ (arumviklen, “to wreath, wrap”)
  • געוויקלטע קרויט‎ (geviklte kroyt, “stuffed cabbage”)
  • וויק‎ (vik, “a wrap”)
  • וויקל‎ (vikl, “a spin”)
  • וויקלטרעפּ‎ (vikltrep, “an escalator”)
  • וויקלען אין וואַטע‎ (viklen in vate, “to care for”)
  • וויקלקינד‎ (viklkind, “baby, infant (a swaddled child)”)
  • וויקלקרײַז‎ (viklkrayz, “a cycle”)
  • וויקלשנור‎ (viklshnur, “a legging, long swaddling cloth”)
  • וויקעלע‎ (vikele, “a diaper”)
  • פֿאַרוויקלט‎ (farviklt, “wrapped, involved, complicated, intricate”)
  • פֿאַרוויקלען‎ (farviklen, “to entangle, to complicate”)
  • פֿאַרוויקלעניש‎ (farviklenish, “entanglement”)
  • פֿונאַנדערוויקלען‎ (funanderviklen, “to unwrap”)
  • צעוויקלען‎ (tseviklen, “to unroll, unfurl, deploy”)
  • שפּעט־אַנטוויקלער‎ (shpet-antvikler, “a late bloomer”)
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