(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
streek (third-person singular simple present streeks, present participle streeking, simple past and past participle streeked)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “streek”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
From Dutch streek, from Middle Dutch strēke, from Old Dutch *striki, from Proto-West Germanic *striki, from Proto-Germanic *strikiz.
streek (plural streke)
From Middle Dutch strēke, strēec, from Old Dutch *striki, from Proto-West Germanic *striki, from Proto-Germanic *strikiz.
In Middle Dutch there may have been a merger of the above noun with a descendant of related Proto-West Germanic *straik. Compare the German distinction between Strich and Streich. The fact that most Dutch dialects with a distinction between original and secondary length point to *striki does not necessarily mean that *straik did not exist (but only that they were merged in favour of the former). Limburgish streik at any rate is from *straik and combines the same meanings as in Dutch.
streek f (plural streken, diminutive streekje n)
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
streek
streek (third-person singular simple present streeks, present participle streekin, simple past streekit, past participle streekit)
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
streek c (plural streken, diminutive streekje)