walk

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To move along on foot, one step at a time.

   We walked to school together every morning.

2. 2
   noun

   A journey on foot, often for pleasure or exercise.

   We took a walk after lunch.

3. 3
   verb

   To take an animal or person somewhere on foot, or to lead them as they walk.

   He walks the dog every evening.

4. 4
   noun

   The way a person walks.

   You could recognise him by his unusual walk.

5. 5
   noun

   A path made for walking on.

   After the snowfall, we shovelled the front walk.

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Simplified etymology

Walk comes from an Old English verb that originally meant “roll, toss” and “wander.” It did not acquire its familiar sense of moving on foot until the 13th century.

From Middle English walken (“to move, walk, roll, turn, revolve, toss”), a conflation of Old English wealcan (“to move round, revolve, roll, turn, toss”) (ġewealcan (“to go, traverse”)) and Old English wealcian (“to curl, roll up”); both from Proto-West Germanic *walkan, from Proto-Germanic *walkaną, *walkōną (“to twist, turn, roll about, full”), from Proto-Indo-European *walg- (“to twist, turn, move”). Cognate with Scots walk (“to walk”), Saterland Frisian walkje (“to full; drum; flex; mill”), West Frisian swalkje (“to wander, roam”), Dutch walken (“to full, work hair or felt”), Dutch zwalken…

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