fyke

See also: Fyke

English

Three fykes at the Zuiderzeemuseum

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch fuik (“fish trap”), from Middle Dutch vuyke, fuke. Cognate with West Frisian fûke, German Low German Fuuk.

Noun

fyke (plural fykes)

(fishing) A type of fish-trap consisting of tubular nets that are supported by hoops.
Synonym: fyke net, fyke-net

Translations

type of fish-trap

Afrikaans: fyke
Chinese:
Mandarin: 长袋网
Danish: ruse
Dutch: fuik (nl) m or f
Finnish: rysä (fi)
French: verveux (fr)
Galician: viturón m
German: Sacknetz n, Reuse (de) f
Italian: martavello
Norwegian:
Bokmål: ruse (no)
Polish: żak (pl) m
Swedish: ryssja (sv)
Turkish: pinter (tr)

Verb

fyke (third-person singular simple present fykes, present participle fyking, simple past and past participle fyked)

(transitive, intransitive) To fish using a fyke.

Middle English

Alternative forms

fycz, fic, fike

Etymology

fyke

Inherited from Old English fīc, from Vulgar Latin *fīca, from Latin fīcus. Doublet of fige.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈfiːk(ə)/

Noun

fyke (plural fykes)

A fig (fruit of a fig tree)

Descendants

English: fike

References

“fīk(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-3.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

fyke (present tense fyk, past tense fauk, supine foke, past participle foken, present participle fykande, imperative fyk)

Alternative form of fyka