luik
See also: Luik
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch luik, from Middle Dutch luke.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lœy̯k/
Noun
luik (plural luike)
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lœy̯k/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: luik
- Rhymes: -œy̯k
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch luke, from the (now obsolete) verb luiken. Cognate with German Luke.
Noun
luik n (plural luiken, diminutive luikje n)
- hatch
- shutter
- (art) panel, as in a triptych
- (figuratively) first-rank section, part (of few), e.g. chapter of a plan
Synonyms
Derived terms
Descendants
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
luik
- inflection of luiken:
- first-person singular present indicative
- (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
- imperative
Anagrams
Estonian
Etymology
From Proto-Finnic *luikkoi.
Noun
luik (genitive luige, partitive luike)
Declension
| Declension of luik (ÕS type 22i/külm, k-g gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | luik | luiged | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | luige | ||
| genitive | luikede | ||
| partitive | luike | luiki luikesid | |
| illative | luike luigesse |
luikedesse luigisse | |
| inessive | luiges | luikedes luigis | |
| elative | luigest | luikedest luigist | |
| allative | luigele | luikedele luigile | |
| adessive | luigel | luikedel luigil | |
| ablative | luigelt | luikedelt luigilt | |
| translative | luigeks | luikedeks luigiks | |
| terminative | luigeni | luikedeni | |
| essive | luigena | luikedena | |
| abessive | luigeta | luikedeta | |
| comitative | luigega | luikedega | |
Further reading
- “luik”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- luik in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
Scots
Alternative forms
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Scots luke, from Northern Middle English luke, from Old English lōcian, from Proto-West Germanic *lōkōn.
Noun
luik (plural luiks)
Verb
luik (third-person singular simple present luiks, present participle luikin, simple past luikit, past participle luikit)
- to look
- 1983, William Lorimer, transl., The New Testament in Scots, Edinburgh: Canongate, published 2001, →ISBN, →OCLC, I Corinthians 13:12, page 298:
- Nou we ar like luikin in a mirror an seein aathing athraw, but than we s' luik aathing braid i the face. Nou I ken aathing hauflinsweys, but than I will ken aathing as weill as God kens me.
- Now it's like we're looking in a mirror and seeing everything skew-whiff, but then we'll look at everything straight up. Now I understand everything partially, but then I'll understand everything as well as God understands me.
- to examine, inspect