Etymology

wankle

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Today it means: Weak; unstable; unreliable; not to be depended on. Full definition →

Middle English wankel ← Old English wancol ← Proto-West Germanic *wankul
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The story

  1. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*wankul
  2. Old English · inherited fromwancol
  3. Middle English · inherited fromwankel
  4. English todaywankle

From Middle English wankel, from Old English wancol, from Proto-West Germanic *wankul.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishwankel all →

wonky

Old Englishwancol all →

wonky

Proto-West Germanic*wankul all →

wonky

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.