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From Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz, whence also Old English cwic, Old High German quec. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós (“alive”).

kvikr

1. alive
2. lively, quick

Declension of comparative of kvikr

Strong declension of superlative of kvikr

Weak declension of superlative of kvikr

• kvikfé n, kvikfénaðr m (“live stock”)

• kvika f, kvikva f (“quick (sensitive flesh)”)

• kvikindi n, kvikvendi n, kykvendi n (“a living creature”)

• kviksetja (“to bury alive”)

• kvikudropi m (“drop of a fluid”)

• kvikvavǫðvi m (“the calf of the leg”)

• kvikna, kykna

• Icelandic: kvikur

• Faroese: kvikur, kykur

• Norwegian Nynorsk: kvik, kvikk

• Norwegian Bokmål: kvikk

• Swedish: kvick

• Danish: kvik

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