Lemizh / English dictionary

wzàhk.

to protect someone/something-dat with an umbrella

wzùhk. umbrella

Etymology

< NLem wzar‑k‑a, compound of
  NLem wzar‑a ‘rain’
< LMLem, MLem wuzar‑yr
< OLem wuzar‑
< PLem *wozar‑ ‘water’ [inanimate]
< PIE *u̯ódr̥, deverbal noun of
  PIE *u̯ed‑ ‘well, gush’
 —and—
  NLem, LMLem, MLem k‑a ‘opposition’
< Ghe q‑a /qa/

doublet of wzà.

Cognates

Eng water, undulate (via Lat unda ‘wave’), Gk ὕδωρ ‘water’