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See also: tík and TIK

Translingual

Symbol

tik

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tikar.

See also

English

Etymology

Early 21st century, perhaps imitative of the popping sounds made by meth being lit and smoked.[1]

Noun

tik (uncountable)

  1. (South Africa, slang) crystal meth or speed.
    • 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.

References

Anagrams

Afrikaans

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Dutch tikken.

Verb

tik (present tik, present participle tikkende, past participle getik)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to tap
  2. (transitive) to type
  3. (Cape Afrikaans, intransitive) to use crystal meth
    Synonym: tjoef

Etymology 2

From Dutch tik.

Noun

tik (plural tikke)

  1. tap
  2. (Cape Afrikaans, uncountable) crystal meth
    Synonym: tjoef
Derived terms

Choctaw

Noun

tīk (inalienable)

  1. female
  2. sister (of a man)

Czech

Pronunciation

Noun

tik m inan

  1. a tick, a twitch

Declension

Dinka

Noun

tik (plural diäär or dior)

  1. woman
  2. wife

References

  • Dinka-English Dictionary, 2005

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /tɪk/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: tik
  • Rhymes: -ɪk

Etymology 1

From tikken.

Noun

tik m (plural tikken, diminutive tikje n)

  1. tick (a kind of sound)
  2. tap
  3. slap
  4. little bit (In: "een tikje meer")
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: tik
  • Papiamentu: tiki (from the diminutive)
  • Indonesian: tik

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tik

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

Anagrams

Garo

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

tik

  1. louse

Hausa

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

Ideophone

tîk

  1. something heavy falling

Hungarian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Noun

tik (plural tikok)

  1. (dialectal) Alternative form of tyúk (hen).
Declension
Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative tik tikok
accusative tikot tikokat
dative tiknak tikoknak
instrumental tikkal tikokkal
causal-final tikért tikokért
translative tikká tikokká
terminative tikig tikokig
essive-formal tikként tikokként
essive-modal
inessive tikban tikokban
superessive tikon tikokon
adessive tiknál tikoknál
illative tikba tikokba
sublative tikra tikokra
allative tikhoz tikokhoz
elative tikból tikokból
delative tikról tikokról
ablative tiktól tikoktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular
tiké tikoké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
tikéi tikokéi
Possessive forms of tik
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. tikom tikjaim
2nd person sing. tikod tikjaid
3rd person sing. tikja tikjai
1st person plural tikunk tikjaink
2nd person plural tikotok tikjaitok
3rd person plural tikjuk tikjaik

Etymology 2

Pronoun

tik

  1. (personal, folksy) Alternative form of ti (you, plural).
Declension

Further reading

  • (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

Indonesian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Dutch tik, tikken.

Pronunciation

Noun

tik (first-person possessive tikku, second-person possessive tikmu, third-person possessive tiknya)

  1. 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)

Derived terms

Further reading

Latvian

Adverb

tik

  1. so
    tik daudzso many

Particle

tik

  1. not so... as

Lithuanian

Etymology 1

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.”

Pronunciation

Adverb

tik (not comparable)

  1. just, only (nothing more than; nothing else other than)
    Synonyms: vien, tiktai
    Kàs bùs toliaũ, gãlima tìk spėlióti.We can only speculate as to what will come next.
    Jìs tìk bė̃go ir̃ bė̃go.He just ran and ran.
  2. only just, barely, hardly
    Synonyms: bemaž, vos
    Rãdo jį̃ tik gývą, tik nenùmirė.We found him barely alive, he almost died.

Conjunction

tik

  1. but, yet, just (introduces a concession)
    Synonyms: bet, tačiau
    Labaĩ nóriu, tìk pinigų̃ neturiù.I'd love to, just I don't have the money.

Particle

tik

  1. (in conjunction with question words) -ever, no matter
    Synonyms: bebūtų, bet
    tìk ìmasi, tàs sẽkasi.He succeeds at whatever he puts his hand to.

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Of imitative origin.

Interjection

tìk

  1. Noise made to call chickens
    Synonym: cik
  2. tick (sound of a clock ticking)

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

tìk

  1. second-person singular imperative of tikti

References

  1. ^ Wojciech Smoczyński (2018) “tik”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, →DOI, →ISBN, page 676

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse tík.

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Noun

tik f or m (definite singular tika or tiken, indefinite plural tiker, definite plural tikene)

  1. a female canine
  2. a ewe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse tík.

Noun

tik f (definite singular tika, indefinite plural tiker, definite plural tikene)

  1. a female canine
  2. a ewe

Pipil

Preposition

tik

  1. in, to, from, inside, into

Further reading

  • Campbell, L. (1985). The Pipil Language of El Salvador. Mouton De Gruyter. p. 59

Polish

Polish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

Borrowed from French tic.

Pronunciation

Noun

tik m inan

  1. (medicine) tic (local and habitual convulsive motion)

Declension

Derived terms

adjective

Further reading

  • tik in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Sudovian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic . Compare Lithuanian tìk, Latvian tik, however Old Prussian ter (only).[1][2]

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Particle

tik

  1. only, just

References

  1. ^ Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, →DOI, page 80:tik ‘tik, tiktai, l. tylko’ 21.
  2. ^ tìk” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–): “nar. tik part. ‘nur’”.

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse tík (bitch). Compare English tyke.

Pronunciation

Noun

tik c

  1. a bitch (female canine)
    Synonym: hynda

Declension

Tatar

Adjective

tik

  1. only, solitary

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish تیك (tik), from French tic.

Noun

tik (definite accusative tiği, plural tikler)

  1. tic (movement)
  2. tic (mannerism)

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish تیك (tik), from English teak.

Noun

tik (definite accusative tiği, plural tikler)

  1. teak

Etymology 3

From English tick.

Noun

tik (definite accusative tiği, plural tikler)

  1. tick (check mark)
    • 2023 May 4, “Kılıçdaroğlu'na 'gri tik' verildi”, in Cumhuriyet:
      Millet İttifakı’nın Cumhurbaşkanı adayı Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu'nun Twitter hesabına "gri tik" verildi.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Further reading

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tikka. Cognates include Finnish tikka.

Noun

tik

  1. woodpecker

Declension

Inflection of tik (inflection type 5/sana)
nominative sing. tik
genitive sing. tikan
partitive sing. tikad
partitive plur. tikoid
singular plural
nominative tik tikad
accusative tikan tikad
genitive tikan tikoiden
partitive tikad tikoid
essive-instructive tikan tikoin
translative tikaks tikoikš
inessive tikas tikoiš
elative tikaspäi tikoišpäi
illative tikaha tikoihe
adessive tikal tikoil
ablative tikalpäi tikoilpäi
allative tikale tikoile
abessive tikata tikoita
comitative tikanke tikoidenke
prolative tikadme tikoidme
approximative I tikanno tikoidenno
approximative II tikannoks tikoidennoks
egressive tikannopäi tikoidennopäi
terminative I tikahasai tikoihesai
terminative II tikalesai tikoilesai
terminative III tikassai
additive I tikahapäi tikoihepäi
additive II tikalepäi tikoilepäi

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English think.

Pronunciation

Noun

tik (nominative plural tiks)

  1. thought (object or instance of thinking)

Declension

Derived terms