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)
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
Derived terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: eik
- Jersey Dutch: āike
Anagrams
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse eik, from Proto-Germanic *aiks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aiːk/
Declension
Declension of eik | ||||
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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
- eikilunnur
- eikirót
- eikitræ
- eikilund
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse eik, from Proto-Germanic *aiks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /eiːk/
- Rhymes: -eiːk
Declension
Synonyms
- eikitré, eiki
Ingrian
Pronunciation
- (Ala-Laukaa) IPA(key): /ˈei̯k/, [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.
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.
Synonyms
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/
Synonyms
References
- “eik” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *aiks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”).
Descendants
References
- “eik”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press