different between fyke vs syke

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch fuik (“fish trap”), from Middle Dutch vuyke, fuke. Cognate with West Frisian fûke, German Low German Fuuk.

Noun

fyke (plural fykes)

1. (fishing) A type of fish-trap consisting of tubular nets that are supported by hoops.

   Synonym: fyke net, fyke-net

Translations

See also

• fike

Middle English

Alternative forms

• fycz, fic, fike

Etymology

Inherited from Old English f?c, from Vulgar Latin *f?ca, from Latin f?cus. Doublet of fige.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?fi?k(?)/

Noun

fyke (plural fykes)

1. A fig (fruit of a fig tree)

Descendants

• English: fike

References

• “f?k(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-1-3.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

fyke (present tense fyk, past tense fauk, supine foke, past participle foken, present participle fykande, imperative fyk)

1. Alternative form of fyka

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?k

Etymology 1

Noun

syke (plural sykes)

1. Alternative spelling of sike (“a gutter or ditch”)

Etymology 2

Noun

syke (plural sykes)

1. (heraldry) A roundel barry wavy argent and azure; a fountain.

Etymology 3

Interjection

syke

1. (slang) Alternative form of psych

Anagrams

• Keys, Skye, esky, keys, kyes, skye, yesk

Finnish

Etymology

sykkiä +? -e

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?syke?/, [?s?yke?(?)]
• Rhymes: -yke
• Syllabification: sy?ke

Noun

syke

1. pulse, heartbeat; heart rate

Declension

Synonyms

• (heartbeat): sydämensyke

Derived terms

• leposyke, sykemittari

Anagrams

• eksy, kesy, kyse

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

Adjective

syke

1. definite singular of syk
2. plural of syk

Etymology 2

From syk

Alternative forms

• sjuke (Nynorsk also)

Noun

syke m (definite singular syken, indefinite plural syker, definite plural sykene)

1. illness, sickness
2. (in some cases) disease

Synonyms

• sykdom

Derived terms

References

• “syke” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “syke” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).