aik
See also: -aik, aik-, and aik.
English
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], from Old Norse aka (“to drive, sail, navigate”), from Proto-Germanic *akaną.
Verb
aik (third-person singular simple present aiks, present participle aiking, simple past and past participle aiked)
- (Northern England, rare) To drive.
- The herd aiked his neat out to the leas.
References
- The Dictionary of the Scots Language
Anagrams
- AKI, KIA, Kai, Kia, kai
Central Nahuatl
Adverb
aik
- never.
Mualang
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aiʔ/
Noun
aik
- water
Further reading
- Smith, A. (2017) The Languages of Borneo: A Comprehensive Classification, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Scots
Etymology 1
From Middle English ook, oke, aik, ake, from Old English āc (also as Old English ǣċ), from Proto-West Germanic *aik, from Proto-Germanic *aiks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”).
Alternative forms
- ake
- yik (south)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ek/
- (south) IPA(key): /jɪk/
Noun
aik (plural aiks)
- (now obsolete, poetic) oak
- 1792, Robert Burns, Lady Mary Ann:
- Young Charlie Cochran was the sprout of an aik
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- 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
- And then he saw the cause, for Heriot was coming down in a furious flood, sixty yards wide, tearing at the roots of the aiks and flinging red waves against the drystone dykes.
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Derived terms
- aiken
References
- “aik, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
Etymology 2
Compare aig.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ek/
Verb
aik (third-person singular simple present aiks, present participle aikin, simple past aiked, past participle aiked)
- (Caithness) to drive
Further reading
- “aik, v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.