aik

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See also: -aik, aik-, and aik.

English

Etymology

From Middle English , from Old Norse aka (“to drive, sail, navigate”), from Proto-Germanic *akaną.

Verb

aik (third-person singular simple present aiks, present participle aiking, simple past and past participle aiked)

  1. (Northern England, rare) To drive.
    The herd aiked his neat out to the leas.

References

Anagrams

Central Nahuatl

Adverb

aik

  1. never.

References

  • Herrera López, Hermilo (2015); Diccionario de la lengua Náhuatl de Texcoco, Instituto Mexiquense de los pueblos indígenas. Academia de la lengua náhuatl de Texcoco, Mexico City, Mexico.

Mualang

Pronunciation

Noun

aik

  1. water

Further reading

  • Smith, A. (2017) The Languages of Borneo: A Comprehensive Classification, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Scots

Etymology 1

From Middle English ook, oke, aik, ake, from Old English āc (also as Old English ǣċ), from Proto-West Germanic *aik, from Proto-Germanic *aiks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Noun

aik (plural aiks)

  1. (now obsolete, poetic) oak
    • 1792, Robert Burns, Lady Mary Ann:
      Young Charlie Cochran was the sprout of an aik
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:
      And then he saw the cause, for Heriot was coming down in a furious flood, sixty yards wide, tearing at the roots of the aiks and flinging red waves against the drystone dykes.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Derived terms

References

Etymology 2

Compare aig.

Pronunciation

Verb

aik (third-person singular simple present aiks, present participle aikin, simple past aiked, past participle aiked)

  1. (Caithness) to drive

Further reading

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