"witch" and "warlock"

[Isaac Bonewits]

Christopher Gwinn said...

>Calvert Watkins in "The American Heritage Dictionary of Indo European Roots"
>has Witch derive from the root *weg- (2) "to be strong/to be lively" (which
>also is the root of English "to wake").

>Witch, from Old English masculine Wicca (Feminine Wicce), ultimately comes
>from a suffixed PIE form, *weg-yo and likely may represent a Proto Germanic
>*wikkjaz meaning "necromancer" or (more literally) "one who wakes the dead."

>Warlock (Old English Waeloga), on the other hand, comes from a compound of
>two PIE roots, *werH-o "true/trustworthy" and *leugh-  "to tell a lie."
>Warlock literally means "pledge/oath breaker" (the Old English word waeloga
>meant "oath breaker/damned soul/wicked person" and was often assigned as an
>epithet of Satan).

My books (most of which are old) have OE wicca < OE wic- < PIE
*weik-, with four meanings, mostly having to do with "magic or
sorcery" or "bending, twisting", and also related to "wych" and
"willow."

Is that tracing obsolete?  Have any articles on "witch" and "warlock"
been published in JIES or elsewhere in the last twenty years?

cheers,
Isaac B.
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