wike
See also: Wike
English
Etymology
From Old English wic. See wick (“village”).
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -aɪk
Noun
wike (plural wikes)
- (obsolete, UK, dialect) A home; a dwelling.
- A temporary mark or boundary, such as a tree bough set up in marking out or dividing anything, such as tithes, swaths to be mowed in shared ground, etc.
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 wike in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- Weik
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English wicce.
Adjective
wike
- Alternative form of wikke
Etymology 2
From Old English wicu.
Noun
wike
- Alternative form of weke (“week”)
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian wike, from Proto-West Germanic *wikā.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvikə/
Noun
wike c (plural wiken, diminutive wykje)
- week
Further reading
- “wike (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011