kiik
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Kiik
Estonian
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Etymology
Probably a deverbal from kiikuma (“to swing”), from Proto-Finnic *kiikkudak. Cognate with Finnish kiikku.
Pronunciation
Noun
kiik (genitive kiige, partitive kiike)
- swing; seesaw
- A device used for swinging, consisting of thills or ropes hanging from a spindle attached to poles and a board or boards attached between them.
- Kiik on vahend, millel meelelahutuse või mängimise eesmärgil kiigutakse.
- A swing is a device, on which people swing in order to play or entertain themselves.
- A log or a board placed on a fulcrum, on which people sit on the ends.
- Kiige ühes otsas istus ema, teises poeg.
- The mother sat on one end of the seesaw, the son at the other.
- A device used for swinging, consisting of thills or ropes hanging from a spindle attached to poles and a board or boards attached between them.
Declension
| Declension of kiik (ÕS type 22i/külm, k-g gradation) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | kiik | kiiged | |
| accusative | nom. | ||
| gen. | kiige | ||
| genitive | kiikede | ||
| partitive | kiike | kiiki kiikesid | |
| illative | kiike kiigesse |
kiikedesse kiigisse | |
| inessive | kiiges | kiikedes kiigis | |
| elative | kiigest | kiikedest kiigist | |
| allative | kiigele | kiikedele kiigile | |
| adessive | kiigel | kiikedel kiigil | |
| ablative | kiigelt | kiikedelt kiigilt | |
| translative | kiigeks | kiikedeks kiigiks | |
| terminative | kiigeni | kiikedeni | |
| essive | kiigena | kiikedena | |
| abessive | kiigeta | kiikedeta | |
| comitative | kiigega | kiikedega | |
Related terms
Yucatec Maya
Pronunciation
Noun
kiik (plural kiikoʼob)
- older sister
- 2011, Marga Beatriz Aguilar Montejo, “U x-waáyilo’ob X-Letra”, in T’aan: Narrativa, Poesía y Dramaturgia, Secretaría de Educación del Estado de Yucatán, page 88:
- Beey xan teech, in yaabilmech, in kiikech.
- I also love you, you are my sister.