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2004 June 8, “On the Tik-Tik express”, in SABC News, archived from the original on 2 June 2006:
This Tuesday Special Assignment focuses on a deepening crisis in Cape Town. Many young adults and schoolchildren as young as 10 years are in the grip of a powerful drug called crystal methamphetamine – known locally as tik. It’s been on the fringes for several years but it is now catching on fast among the youth of the Western Cape.
2006 May 13, Weekend Argus, page 12:
Over a third of all people seeking rehabilitation in the second half of 2005 reported that their primary problem was tik.
2020 October 10, Mike Simpson, “More seizures of drug consignments on long-distance buses”, in The South African:
Hardly a week goes by without news of a crime bust of some kind involving one of the buses travelling cross-country, with everything from mandrax to tik, marijuana and abalone finding its way on board.
(folksy alternative form of tyúk(“hen”)):tik , redirecting to tyúk in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
(folksy alternative form of ti(“you all”)):tik , redirecting to (1):ti in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
tik (first-person possessivetikku, second-person possessivetikmu, third-person possessivetiknya)
typewriter(a device, at least partially mechanical, used to print text by pressing keys that cause type to be impressed through an inked ribbon onto paper)
Traditionally considered a shortening of tíek(“so much”) or tiektaĩ(“not only”), though the phonological processes involved are unclear.[1]
This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “What is tiek's further etymology? Smoczynski doesn't trace it back to Proto-Indo-European; looks a bit like a combination of Proto-Balto-Slavic*tas(“that”) + *ki(“what”), or perhaps it's derived from some other grammatical-type words.”