different between kwik vs kaik

English

Adjective

kwik (comparative kwikker, superlative kwikkest)

1. Eye dialect spelling of quick.

Usage notes

• Phonemic spelling, generally used in commercial names, like Kwik Meal.

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch kwik, short for kwikzilver.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kv?k/

Noun

kwik (uncountable)

1. mercury

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??k/
• Hyphenation: kwik
• Rhymes: -?k

Etymology 1

From kwikzilver.

Noun

kwik n (uncountable)

1. the element mercury
2. (metonymous) thermometer

Synonyms

• kwikzilver

Derived terms

• kwikthermometer

Related terms

• kek
• kwikstaart
• kwikzand
• kwikzilver
• verkwikken

Descendants

• Afrikaans: kwik
• ? Sranan Tongo: kwek
• ? West Frisian: kwik

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch quic, from Old Dutch quic, from Proto-West Germanic *kwik(k)w, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz. Compare English quick.

Adjective

kwik (comparative kwikker, superlative kwikst)

1. Alternative form of kwiek.

Inflection

Limburgish

Etymology

From Dutch kwik

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?kw???]

Noun

kwik n

1. (uncountable) mercury
2. A part of mercury

Inflection

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Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian quik, from Proto-West Germanic *kwik(k)w, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz (“living; active”). More at quick.

Adjective

kwik

1. perk; nimble

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English quick.

Adjective

kwik

1. quick

English

Noun

kaik (plural kaiks)

1. Alternative spelling of caique

Anagrams

• kaki

Hungarian

Alternative forms

• kajik

Etymology

First attested in 1720, from Ottoman Turkish ????? (kay?k, “boat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?jik]
• Hyphenation: ka?ik
• Rhymes: -ik

Noun

kaik (plural kaikok)

1. caique

Declension

Related terms

• kaikdzsi

Ingrian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kaikki. Cognates include Finnish kaikki and Estonian kõik.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kai?k/

Pronoun

kaik

1. all

Declension

References

• Vitalij Chernyavskij (2005) Ižoran keel (Ittseopastaja)?^[1]

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *kaikki.

Determiner

kaik

1. all, all of
2. (used alone) everyone, everything, all

Inflection

References

• Zajceva, N. G.; Mullonen, M. I. (2007) , “????”, in Uz’ venä-vepsläine vajehnik / Novyj russko-vepsskij slovar? [New Russian–Veps Dictionary], Petrozavodsk: Periodika