verwijken

Verwijken is a Dutch verb that does not belong to standard modern Dutch and is rarely documented in common dictionaries. In contemporary usage it is not considered part of the accepted lexicon, and when it appears it is usually in dialectal, historical, or phonetic-variant contexts rather than as a widely accepted term.

Etymologically, verwijken can be viewed as a compound of het voorvoegsel ver- and het werkwoord wijken, which means to deviate, move aside, or yield. From that construction, verwijken would semantically align with notions like deviating from a path, changing course, or moving away from a plan. However, because there is little to no stable attestation in widely consulted sources, any specific sense remains tentative and highly dependent on regional or historical usage.

In practice, speakers and writers will more commonly employ established synonyms such as afwijken (to deviate), uitwijken (to detour or dodge), or wijken (to yield or move). Verwijken is therefore typically avoided in modern standard Dutch and is more likely encountered in discussions of dialectal variation, archaic texts, or orthographic observations rather than as a productive part of everyday language.

See also: afwijken, uitwijken, wijken, deviatie. For researchers, verwijken may be noted as a non-standard or historical form, illustrating how prefix ver- can interact with a base verb to signal change of state, even when such formations do not persist in contemporary usage.