Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to welk
Participle: welked
Gerund: welking
Indicative
Present
| I | welk |
| you | welk |
| he;she;it | welks |
| we | welk |
| you | welk |
| they | welk |
Perfect
| I | have welked |
| you | have welked |
| he;she;it | has welked |
| we | have welked |
| you | have welked |
| they | have welked |
Past
| I | welked |
| you | welked |
| he;she;it | welked |
| we | welked |
| you | welked |
| they | welked |
Pluperfect
| I | had welked |
| you | had welked |
| he;she;it | had welked |
| we | had welked |
| you | had welked |
| they | had welked |
Future
| I | will welk |
| you | will welk |
| he;she;it | will welk |
| we | will welk |
| you | will welk |
| they | will welk |
Future Perfect
| I | will have welked |
| you | will have welked |
| he;she;it | will have welked |
| we | will have welked |
| you | will have welked |
| they | will have welked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | welk |
| you | welk |
| he;she;it | welk |
| we | welk |
| you | welk |
| they | welk |
Perfect
| I | have welked |
| you | have welked |
| he;she;it | have welked |
| we | have welked |
| you | have welked |
| they | have welked |
Imperfect
| I | welked |
| you | welked |
| he;she;it | welked |
| we | welked |
| you | welked |
| they | welked |
Pluperfect
| I | had welked |
| you | had welked |
| he;she;it | had welked |
| we | had welked |
| you | had welked |
| they | had welked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would welk |
| you | would welk |
| he;she;it | would welk |
| we | would welk |
| you | would welk |
| they | would welk |
Perfect
| I | would have welked |
| you | would have welked |
| he;she;it | would have welked |
| we | would have welked |
| you | would have welked |
| they | would have welked |
Imperative
| you | welk |
| we | Let's welk |
| you | welk |
Verbs conjugated like 'welk'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'welk'
belk,
kelk,
walk,
weak,
weld,
well,
welt,
balk,
beak,
beck,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English welken, probably from a continental Germanic language; compare Middle Dutch welken (Dutch welken) and Middle Low German welken. Cognate with German welken. Ultimately, from Proto-West Germanic *wilkijan (“to become soft”), from Proto-Germanic *welkaz (“soft, withered”), according to Kluge, related to *wulkną (“cloud”).
2. Compare also Old English wealwian (“to fade, wither”), Old English wlacu (“tepid, lukewarm”). See: Middle English '
welken', Dutch '
welken', German, old spelling '
welken', Old English '
wealwian'.
Verbs referencing "welk"
Dutch
welken.
Sample Sentences
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As gentle Shepheard in ſweete euentide, / When ruddy Phebus gins to welke in weſt, [...] [1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 23, page 9:]
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[T]he Church that before by inſenſible degrees welk'd and impair'd, now with large ſteps went down hill decaying; [...] [1641 May, John Milton, “The Second Book”, in Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England: And the Causes that hitherto have Hindred it. […], [London]: […] Thomas Vnderhill, →OCLC; republished in Will Taliaferro Hale, editor, Of Reformation Touching Church-Discipline in England (Yale Studies in English; LIV), New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1916, →OCLC, page 257:]
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But nowe ſadde Winter welked hath the day, / And Phœbus weary of his yerely taſ-ke: / Yſtabled hath his ſteedes in lowlye laye / And taken vp his ynne in Fiſhes haſ-ke. [1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “Nouember. Ægloga Vndecima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC, folio 44, verso:]