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Etymology edit

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streek (third-person singular simple present streeks, present participle streeking, simple past and past participle streeked)

  1. (archaic, dialect, UK, Scotland, transitive) To stretch.
  2. (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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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

  • IPA(key): /strɪə̯k/
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Noun edit

streek (plural streke)

  1. prank, trick
  2. region

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)

  1. region
  2. stroke (movement e.g. with a paintbrush)
  3. prank, trick, antic
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Descendants edit
  • Afrikaans: streek
  • Negerhollands: streek
  • Papiamentu: streek (dated)

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

streek

  1. singular past indicative of strijken

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Scots edit

Verb edit

streek (third-person singular simple present streeks, present participle streekin, simple past streekit, past participle streekit)

  1. (South Scots, archaic) stretch
    Fower hunder horsemen in yeh streekit line.

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Etymology edit

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Noun edit

streek c (plural streken, diminutive streekje)

  1. line, stripe
  2. stroke, stroking movement
  3. region
  4. trick, prank

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Further reading edit

  • streek”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011