kriek
See also: Kriëk
English edit
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Noun edit
kriek (countable and uncountable, plural krieks)
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kriek (plural krieke, diminutive kriekie)
- cricket (insect)
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Etymology 1 edit
From Middle Dutch crieke f, from Old Dutch *krieka, unexplained; perhaps from Late Latin prunum graecum (“Greek plum”), though this isn't attested until 1517 in a Latin-German dictionary. Latin gr was often derived as kr in older Germanic borrowings (see Proto-West Germanic *Krēkō (“Greek”)).[1] See German Krieche for more cognates.
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kriek f (plural krieken, diminutive kriekje n)
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kriek m (plural krieken, diminutive kriekje n)
- kriek (cherry beer)
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- → English: kriek
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle Dutch crekel, from Old Dutch *krik-, of imitative origin, similar to krekel. See also French criquer, English cricket.
Noun edit
kriek f (plural krieken, diminutive kriekje n)
- (Netherlands, dialectal, Gelderland, formerly also in Holland) A cricket, insect of the family Gryllidae.
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References edit
- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “kriek1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute