streek
English edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -iːk
Verb edit
streek (third-person singular simple present streeks, present participle streeking, simple past and past participle streeked)
- (archaic, dialect, UK, Scotland, transitive) To stretch.
- (archaic, dialect, UK, Scotland, transitive) To lay out, as a dead body.
Derived terms edit
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “streek”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Afrikaans edit
Etymology edit
From Dutch streek, from Middle Dutch strēke, from Old Dutch *striki, from Proto-West Germanic *striki, from Proto-Germanic *strikiz.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
streek (plural streke)
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle Dutch strēke, strēec, from Old Dutch *striki, from Proto-West Germanic *striki, from Proto-Germanic *strikiz.
In Middle Dutch there may have been a merger of the above noun with a descendant of related Proto-West Germanic *straik. Compare the German distinction between Strich and Streich. The fact that most Dutch dialects with a distinction between original and secondary length point to *striki does not necessarily mean that *straik did not exist (but only that they were merged in favour of the former). Limburgish streik at any rate is from *straik and combines the same meanings as in Dutch.
Noun edit
streek f (plural streken, diminutive streekje n)
Derived terms edit
- een vos verliest wel zijn haren, maar niet zijn streken
- jezuïetenstreek
- landstreek
- mijnstreek
- schaamstreek
- streekroman
- streektaal
- streekvervoer
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
streek
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Scots edit
Verb edit
streek (third-person singular simple present streeks, present participle streekin, simple past streekit, past participle streekit)
- (South Scots, archaic) stretch
- Fower hunder horsemen in yeh streekit line.
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West Frisian edit
Etymology edit
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Noun edit
streek c (plural streken, diminutive streekje)
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Further reading edit
- “streek”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011