Meek
Middle English me(o)c (also in the sense ‘courteous or indulgent’), from Old Norse mjúkr ‘soft, gentle’.
wiktionary
From Middle English meek, meke, meoc, a borrowing from Old Norse mjúkr(“soft; meek”), from Proto-Germanic *meukaz, *mūkaz(“soft; supple”), from Proto-Indo-European *mewg-, *mewk-(“slick, slippery; to slip”).
Cognate with Swedish and Norwegian Nynorsk mjuk(“soft”), Norwegian Bokmål myk(“soft”), and Danish myg(“supple”), Dutch muik(“soft, overripe”), dialectal German mauch(“dry and decayed, rotten”), Mauche(“malanders”). Compare also Old English smūgan(“to slide, slip”), Welsh mwyth(“soft, weak”), Latin ēmungō(“to blow one's nose”), Tocharian A muk-(“to let go, give up”), Lithuanian mùkti(“to slip away from”), Old Church Slavonic мъчати(mŭčati, “to chase”), Ancient Greek μύσσομαι(mússomai, “to blow the nose”), Sanskrit मुञ्चति(muñcati, “to release, let loose”).
etymonline
meek (adj.)
late 12c., mēk, "gentle or mild of temper; forbearing under injury or annoyance; humble, unassuming;" of a woman, "modest," from a Scandinavian source such as Old Norse mjukr "soft, pliant, gentle," from Proto-Germanic *meukaz (source also of Gothic muka-modei "humility," Dutch muik "soft"), a word of uncertain origin, perhaps from PIE *meug- "slippery, slimy." In the Bible, it translates Latin mansuetus from Vulgate (for which see mansuetude). Sense of "submissive, obedient, docile" is from c. 1300.
meek (n.)
"those who are meek," c. 1200, from meek (adj.).
