Pike

See also: pike, piké, and pikë

English

Etymology 1

The surname is of multiple origins, including Middle English pike.

Proper noun

Pike

1. A surname from Middle English.
2. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A census-designated place in Sierra County, California.
   2. An unincorporated community in Boone County, Indiana, first named Pikes Crossing, at the crossing of a turnpike.
   3. An unincorporated community in Haverhill, Grafton County, New Hampshire.
   4. A town, hamlet, and census-designated place therein, in Wyoming County, New York.
   5. An unincorporated community in Collin County, Texas.
   6. An unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia, named for a turnpike intersection.
   7. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Pike Township.

Derived terms

• Pike County
• Pikes Peak

Etymology 2

Noun

Pike (plural Pikes)

1. (US, slang) A member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.

Anagrams

• kepi, kipe

German

Etymology

From Middle High German pieke, from Middle Dutch pike, from Old Dutch *pīk, from Proto-West Germanic *pīk. Already in Dutch the word was influenced by French pic (“tip”). Another influence is German Picke (“pick, pickaxe”), from picken. The precise relation between all of these words is uncertain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːkə/

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Noun

Pike f (genitive Pike, plural Piken)

1. (weaponry) pike
2. (especially soccer) the tip of the foot or shoe

   Synonyms: Picke, Spitze

Declension

Declension of Pike [feminine]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Pike	die	Piken
genitive	einer	der	Pike	der	Piken
dative	einer	der	Pike	den	Piken
accusative	eine	die	Pike	die	Piken

Derived terms

• von der Pike auf (“from scratch”)

Further reading

• Pike on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “Pike”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
• Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “piek”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands‎^[1] (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
• “Pike” in Duden online