dek

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• Rhymes: -ɛk

Deliberate misspelling of deck, to distinguish the word as not belonging in the story.

• deck

dek (plural deks)

1. (journalism, slang) The subhead of a news story.

From decimal.

dek

1. The cardinal number occurring after nine and before el in a duodecimal system. Written ↊, decimal value 10.

• roneat dek

• EDK, KDE, KED, ked

dek

1. ergative indefinite of de

From Middle Breton dek, from Old Breton dec, from Proto-Brythonic *deg, from Proto-Celtic *dekam, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥.

dek

1. ten

• (cardinal number): Previous: nav. Next: unnek

• IPA^(key): /dɛk/

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• Hyphenation: dek
• Rhymes: -ɛk

From Middle Dutch dec, from decken, from Old Dutch thecken, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjaną. Equivalent to a deverbal from dekken.

dek n (plural dekken, diminutive dekje n)

1. a deck
2. a cover
3. a surface

• achterdek
• benedendek
• campagnedek
• dekknecht
• halfdek
• hoofddek
• lidodek
• onderdek
• scheepsdek
• sneeuwdek
• vliegdek
• voordek
• wegdek
• zadeldek
• zonnedek

• deken
• dekken

• → Indonesian: dek (“deck”)
• → Papiamentu: dèk

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

dek

1. inflection of dekken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

From Ancient Greek δέκα (déka), Latin decem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdek/

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• Hyphenation: dek

dek

1. ten (10)

• deko

From Esperanto dek, from Latin decem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥.

dek

1. ten (10)

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dek

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• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: dèk

From Dutch dek (“deck”), from Middle Dutch dec (“roof, covering”), from Middle Dutch dekken, from Old Dutch thecken, from Proto-Germanic *þakjaną.

dèk (first-person possessive dekku, second-person possessive dekmu, third-person possessive deknya)

1. deck, any raised flat surface that can be walked on.

   Synonym: geladak

From Minangkabau .

dèk

1. (dialect) because of

• “dek” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

dek

1. water

• The Shiwilu classifier system

Borrowed from Burmese တိုက် (tuik).

dek

1. depository

• Kurabe, Keita (2016 December 31) “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎, volume 35, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 91–128

• dik (Veldeke spelling, Rheinische Dokumenta form)
• diek (Veldeke spelling)

From Middle Dutch dicke, from Old Dutch *thicki, from Proto-West Germanic *þikkwī, from Proto-Germanic *þekuz, from Proto-Indo-European *tégus (“thick”).

• IPA^(key): /dek/,
• Rhymes: -ek

dek (masculine deke̩, feminine deke̩, comparative deke̩r, superlative dekste̩) (Rheinische Dokumenta spelling)

1. thick
2. fat, corpulent
3. dense
4. pregnant
5. bloated (of livestock after being fed too much)

Borrowed from Middle Low German dak/dāk

dek m ?

1. roof

• Lehr-Spławiński, T., Polański, K. (1962) “dek”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), number 1 (A – ďüzd), Wrocław, Warszawa etc.: Ossolineum, page 102
• Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “dek”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 51
• Olesch, Reinhold (1962) “Dek”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volumes 1: A – O, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 163

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Borrowed from German Deck, from Dutch dek, from Middle Dutch dec, from decken, from Old Dutch thecken, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛk/

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• Rhymes: -ɛk
• Syllabification: dek

dek m inan

1. (nautical) deck (on a ship)

   Synonym: pokład

• dek in Polish dictionaries at PWN

From Ottoman Turkish دك, from Proto-Turkic *teg.

• IPA^(key): /dec/

dek (+ dative)

1. until, till, up to

   Synonym: değin

   • Ölene dek birlikte olacak mıyız?

     Are we going to be together until we die?

   • Eve dek tutman gerekecek.

     You will need to hold it up until we reach home