Silbentrennung
wel·kinAussprache
Etymologie
() From Middle English welkne, wolkne (“clouds, heavens”), from Old English wolcnu (“clouds”), plural of wolcen (“cloud”), from Proto-Germanic *wulknan, *wulkō, *wulkēn (“cloud”), from Proto-Indo-European *welg-, *welk- (“wet, moist”). Cognate with Dutch wolk (“cloud”), Low Saxon Wulke (“cloud”), German Wolke (“cloud”), German welken (“to wither”). More at welk.