different between dawk vs dalk

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??k/

Etymology 1

Ultimately from Old English dalc (“pin”). More at dalk.

Verb

dawk (third-person singular simple present dawks, present participle dawking, simple past and past participle dawked)

1. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To drive a sharp instrument into; incise with a jerk; puncture.
2. (transitive) To cut or mark with an incision; gash.
3. (transitive, Britain dialectal) To dig up weeds.

Noun

dawk (plural dawks)

1. A hollow or crack in timber.
   • 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises

     THE DAWK was a slight concavity or depression in the body of the cast type , made by a corresponding convexity in the mould

Etymology 2

Noun

dawk (plural dawks)

1. Alternative form of dak (“Indian post system”)

Maltese

Determiner

dawk pl

1. plural of dak

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English dalke, dalk, from Old English dalc (“clasp, buckle, brooch, bracelet”), from Proto-Germanic *dalkaz (“clasp, pin”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?elg- (“to stick; needle, pin”). Cognate with Icelandic dálkur (“cloak-pin”), Latin falx (“scythe”). Doublet of falx.

Noun

dalk (plural dalks)

1. A pin; brooch; clasp

Etymology 2

From Middle English dalke; perhaps a diminutive of dale, dell. In that case from Old English *daluc, from Proto-Germanic *dalukaz.

Alternative forms

• delk

Noun

dalk (plural dalks)

1. (now rare) A hollow or depression.
   • 1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin 2011, p. 120:

     On a sunny September morning, with the trees still green, but the asters and fleabanes already taking over in ditch and dalk, Van set out for Ladoga, N.A.

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch dadelijk, whence also the Afrikaans doublet dadelik (“immediately”). For a possible sense shift from “immediately” to “possibly” compare dialectal English drekly from directly. Note, however, that the Dutch adjective also used to mean “really, actually, indeed” (for which now daadwerkelijk, inderdaad); from this the Afrikaans sense can be derived simply through semantic weakening.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dalk/

Adverb

dalk

1. perchance, perhaps, possibly

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English dalc, from Proto-Germanic *dalkaz.

Noun

dalk

1. Alternative form of dalke (“brooch”)

Etymology 2

From Old English *daluc.

Noun

dalk

1. Alternative form of dalke (“depression”)