steik

steik (third-person singular simple present steiks, present participle steiking, simple past and past participle steiked)

1. Alternative form of steek.

• tikes, skite, stike, kites, Sitek, Kites

From Old Norse steik.

• IPA^(key): [staik]

steik f (genitive singular steikar, plural steikir)

1. roast
2. (slang) crumpet

• steikja (to fry)

From Old Norse steik.

• IPA^(key): /steiːk/
• Rhymes: -eiːk

steik f (genitive singular steikar, nominative plural steikur)

1. steak, roast

Borrowed from English steak.

steik (plural steik-steik)

1. steak

   Synonym: bistik

steik

1. imperative of steike

steik

1. imperative of steike
2. imperative of steikje

Related to steikja (“to fry, roast”)

steik f

1. roast

• Icelandic: steik
• Faroese: steik
• Norwegian Nynorsk: steik
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: steik
• Danish: steg
  • Norwegian Bokmål: stek
• Swedish: stek
• → Middle English: steike
  • English: steak
• → Middle Irish: staíc
  • Irish: stéig
  • Scottish Gaelic: staoig

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “steik”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

• steyk, steke, steike, steick, steek, steake, steck, stek, stik, styk, stick, staige, staidge

From Middle English stic, from Middle Dutch stucke, sticke, from Old Dutch *stukki, *stikki, from Proto-West Germanic *stukkī, from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją. Compare Plautdietsch Stekj (“piece”), Dutch stuk (“piece”).

steik (plural steiks or stikkis)

1. a piece
2. (commercial) a piece or item of goods; a small number or amount, a quantity
3. a piece or cut of cloth