eik
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch eik, from Middle Dutch eike, from Old Dutch *eik, from Proto-Germanic *aiks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əi̯k/
Audio: (file)
Noun
eik (plural eike)
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch eike, êke, from Old Dutch *eik, *ēk, from Proto-West Germanic *aik, from Proto-Germanic *aiks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”). The form in ei- is regular in south-eastern dialects, but may also have developed elsewhere after the adjective *eikīn (“oaken”, modern eiken), where umlaut would have hindered the monophthongisation.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛi̯k/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: eik
- Rhymes: -ɛi̯k
Noun
eik m (plural eiken, diminutive eikje n)
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: eik
- Jersey Dutch: āike
Further reading
- eik on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia nl
Anagrams
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse eik, from Proto-Germanic *aiks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aiːk/
Noun
eik f (genitive singular eikar, plural eikir)
Declension
| f2 | singular | plural | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | eik | eikin | eikir | eikirnar |
| accusative | eik | eikina | eikir | eikirnar |
| dative | eik | eikini | eikum | eikunum |
| genitive | eikar | eikarinnar | eika | eikanna |
Synonyms
Derived terms
- eikilund
- eikilunnur
- eikinøt
- eikirót
- eikitræ
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse eik, from Proto-Germanic *aiks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eiːk/
- Rhymes: -eiːk
Noun
eik f (genitive singular eikar or eikur, nominative plural eikur)
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | eik | eikin | eikur | eikurnar |
| accusative | eik | eikina | eikur | eikurnar |
| dative | eik | eikinni | eikum | eikunum |
| genitive | eikar, eikur | eikarinnar, eikurinnar | eika | eikanna |
Ingrian
Pronunciation
- (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈei̯kæ/, [ˈe̞i̯k]
- (Soikkola) IPA(key): /ˈei̯k/, [ˈe̞i̯ɡ̊]
- Rhymes: -ei̯k
- Hyphenation: eik
Conjunction
eik
- (+ conditional) so that, in order that
- 1885, “Sprachproben: Der goldene Vogel”, in Volmari Porkka, editor, Ueber den Ingrischen Dialekt mit Berücksichtigung der übrigen finnisch-ingermanländischen Dialekte:
- Siit kunigas lähetti vanhemman poikaha vahtii, eik tapajais varasta.
- Then the king sent his oldest son to the guard, so that he could catch the thief.
Synonyms
Verb
eik
Lithuanian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ɛɪ̯ˑk]
Verb
ei̇̃k
- second-person singular imperative of eiti
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Norwegian Nynorsk eik f, from Old Norse eik (“oak, tree in general”), from Proto-Germanic *aiks (“oak tree, oak (wood)”). Largely replaced the older ek, from Danish eg.
Noun
eik f or m (definite singular eika or eiken, indefinite plural eiker, definite plural eikene)
Synonyms
Derived terms
References
- “eik” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse eik, from Proto-Germanic *aiks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”). Cognate with Faroese and Icelandic eik, Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish ek, Danish eg, German Eiche, and English oak.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɛɪːk/
Noun
eik f (definite singular eika, indefinite plural eiker, definite plural eikene)
Synonyms
Derived terms
References
- “eik” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *aiks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”).
Noun
eik f (genitive eikar or eikr, plural eikr)
Descendants
- Icelandic: eik f
- Faroese: eik f
- Norwegian Nynorsk: eik f
- → Norwegian Bokmål: eik m or f
- Old Swedish: ēk
- Swedish: ek c
- Danish: eg c
- Norwegian Bokmål: ek m
- Gutnish: aik
Further reading
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “eik”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive
Scots
Verb
eik
- to add