wike
See also: Wike
English edit
Etymology edit
From Old English wic. See wick (“village”).
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -aɪk
Noun edit
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams edit
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old English wicce.
Adjective edit
wike
- Alternative form of wikke
Etymology 2 edit
From Old English wicu.
Noun edit
wike
- Alternative form of weke (“week”)
West Frisian edit
Etymology edit
From Old Frisian wike, from Proto-West Germanic *wikā.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
wike c (plural wiken, diminutive wykje)
Further reading edit
- “wike (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011