wicca

From English Wicca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwikːɑ/, [ˈwikːɑ̝]
• Rhymes: -ikːɑ

wicca

1. Wicca (neo-pagan religion)
2. Wiccan (follower of this religion)

• (religion): wicca-uskonto, wiccalaisuus
• (follower): wiccalainen

 

Italian Wikipedia has an article on:

wicca

Wikipedia ^it

wicca f (invariable)

1. Wicca

• wiccano

 

English Wikipedia has an article on:

Witch (etymology)

Wikipedia

From Proto-West Germanic *wikkō (“necromancer, sorcerer”).

Further etymology uncertain; apparently from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (“separate, divide”), conjectured to be because of early Germanic divinatory practices to do with casting lots (cleromancy).

The exact etymology is problematic. R. Lühr (Expressivität und Lautgesetz im Germanischen, Heidelberg (1988), p. 354) connects wigol "prophetic, mantic", wīglian "to practice divination" (Middle Low German wichelen (“bewitch”) and suggests Proto-Germanic *wigōn, via Kluge's law becoming *wikkōn. The basic form would then be the feminine, wicce /ˈwɪt͡ʃe/, from *wikkæ, from *wikkōn with palatalization due to the preceding i and the following *æ, from *ōn. The palatal -cc- /t͡ʃ/ in wicca would then be analogous to the feminine.

An alternative possibility is to derive the palatal /t͡ʃ/ directly from the verb wiccian, from *wikkija (OED, s.v. witch). Lühr conversely favours derivation of this verb from the noun.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwit.t͡ʃɑ/

wiċċa m

1. wizard, sorcerer, magician, druid, necromancer
   • c. 890, Ælfred, Domboc, Prologue

     Ða fæmnan þe gewuniað onfon gealdorcræftigan ⁊ scinlæcan ⁊ wiccan, ne læt þu ða libban.

     Women who are accustomed to receiving enchanters and sorceresses and witches, do not let them live.

• wiċċe f

• Middle English: wicche, wikke, wikked
  • English: witch, → Wicca, wicked
  • Scots: wich, wicked, wicket

 

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:

wicca

Wikipedia ^pl

Unadapted borrowing from English Wicca.

• IPA^(key): /ˈvik.ka/
• Rhymes: -ikka
• Syllabification: wic‧ca

wicca f (indeclinable)

1. Wicca (neopagan religion that was first popularized by books written in 1949, 1954, and 1959 by Englishman Gerald Gardner, involving the worship of a horned male god and a moon goddess, the observance of eight Sabbats, and the performance of various rituals)

• wicca in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• wicca in PWN's encyclopedia