kriek

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See also: Kriëk

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch kriek.

Pronunciation

Noun

kriek (countable and uncountable, plural krieks)

  1. A Belgian beer made by fermenting lambic with sour morello cherries.

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch kriek.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /krik/
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Noun

kriek (plural krieke, diminutive kriekie)

  1. cricket (insect)

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch crieke f, from Old Dutch *krieka, unexplained; perhaps from Late Latin prunum graecum (“Greek plum”), though this isn't attested until 1517 in a Latin-German dictionary. Latin gr was often derived as kr in older Germanic borrowings (see Proto-West Germanic *Krēkō (“Greek”)). See German Krieche for more cognates.

Noun

kriek f (plural krieken, diminutive kriekje n)

  1. morello cherry Prunus cerasus

Noun

kriek m (plural krieken, diminutive kriekje n)

  1. kriek (cherry beer)
Descendants
  • → English: kriek

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch crekel, from Old Dutch *krik-, of imitative origin, similar to krekel. See also French criquer, English cricket.

Noun

kriek f (plural krieken, diminutive kriekje n)

  1. (Netherlands, dialectal, Gelderland, formerly also in Holland) A cricket, insect of the family Gryllidae.
Descendants

References

  1. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “kriek1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
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