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See also: Kolk and колк

English

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Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch kolk.

Noun

kolk (plural kolks)

  1. (geology) An underwater vortex similar to a whirlwind, capable of dislodging, picking up, and moving boulders.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Low German Kolk, possibly via German Kolk. Cognate with Dutch kolk.

Noun

kolk (plural kolks)

  1. A relatively small water-filled depression, especially in a bog: a bog pond, a bog eye, a bog kolk.
    • 1988 July 29, Heinz Ellenberg, Vegetation Ecology of Central Europe, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 341:
      […] bogs, but only around pools or kolks. The small-scale mosaic of hummocks and hollows so characteristic of the true raised bog is nowhere to be found on a wooded bog. The quaking bog community on the kolk edge, similar to that […]
    • 1998, R. S. Ambasht, Modern Trends in Ecology and Environment:
      […] bog hollows and kolks.

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kɔlk/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: kolk
  • Rhymes: -ɔlk

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch colc, from Old Dutch *kolk, from Proto-West Germanic *kolk (“hollow, pit, gully”), from Proto-Germanic *kulukaz, an extension of *kelǭ (“throat”).

Noun

kolk f or m (plural kolken, diminutive kolkje n)

  1. vortex, maelstrom
    Synonym: draaikolk
  2. a drain that is part a sewer system
    Synonym: put
  3. a small waterway connected to one or several windmills that control the water level in a polder, serving as a conduit to remove surplus water
    Synonyms: boezemsloot, kolksloot, molenkolk
  4. a dyke beside such a waterway
    Synonyms: kolkdijk, molenkolk
  5. a stagnant pool or lake resulting from the vortex of e.g. a breached dyke
  6. the body of water between sluice gates
    Synonym: sluiskolk
  7. a dug watering hole
Hypernyms
  • (drain of a sewer system): put
  • (small waterway connected to windmills in a polder): sloot
Derived terms
Descendants
  • → Afrikaans: kolk

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

kolk

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