Etymograph

English

veksel

Veksel comes from Russian вексель ‘bill of credit, bill of exchange, promissory…’, from Proto-Germanic *wihslaz ‘change’, and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *weyk- ‘to exchange, curve’.

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*weyk-‘to exchange, curve’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*weyk-slo-sreconstructed
  3. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*wihslaz‘change’reconstructed
  4. Old High Germanc. 750–1050wehsal
  5. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350wëhsel
  6. Germanc. 1650–presentWechsel‘bill of exchange’
  7. Russianmodernвексельvekselʹ‘bill of credit, bill of exchange, promissory note’
  8. Englishearliest quotation 1999veksel

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*weyk-‘to exchange, curve’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Indo-European, derivedc. 4500–2500 BCE*weyk-slo-sreconstructed
  3. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*wihslaz‘change’reconstructed
  4. Old High Germanc. 750–1050wehsal
  5. Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350wëhsel
  6. Germanc. 1650–presentWechsel‘bill of exchange’
  7. Russianmodernвексельvekselʹ‘bill of credit, bill of exchange, promissory note’
  8. Englishearliest quotation 1999veksel

Earliest quotation: 1999, Lev M. Freinkman, Daniel Treisman: “[…] veksels - were a dominant form of subnational…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *weyk- ‘to exchange, curve’

victory, victim, province, convince, weakness, victor, icon, conviction, witch, wicked, wo, convict, invincible, eviction, vicar, wight, weakly, evict, vanquish, wile, ancona, waw, 32 more

Today it means

noun A promissory note or bill of exchange, particularly in Russia and Ukraine: a security which entitles its owner to claim certain property of its issuer (the debtor).

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Indo-European *weyk- / veksel

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