Where does “walken” come from?
walken (Middle Dutch) comes from Old Dutch walkan, from Proto-West Germanic *walkan, from Proto-Germanic walkaną, from Proto-Indo-European wolg-, from Proto-Indo-European wel- — to see.
walken (Middle Dutch): to knead
Ancestry of “walken”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|
| 1 | Old Dutch | walkan | — |
| 2 | Proto-West Germanic | *walkan | — |
| 3 | Proto-Germanic | walkaną | to turn, wind, roll, toss; to wend, walk, wander;... |
| 4 | Proto-Indo-European | wolg- | to twist; turn; move; to turn, twist; to move |
| 5 | Proto-Indo-European | wel- | to see |