different between laik vs claik

English

Etymology

From Old English l?c, from Proto-Germanic *laik? (“game, dance, hymn, sport, fight”). Cognates include Old Norse leikr (whence Danish leg (“game”), Swedish leka (“to play”)), Gothic ???????????????????? (laiks, “dance”). Doublet of lek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le?k/

Verb

laik (third-person singular simple present laiks, present participle laiking, simple past and past participle laiked)

1. (Britain, Northern, dialect) To play (in the sense opposed to work).

Anagrams

• Kail, Kali, Laki, Lika, ilka, kail, kali, kila

Czech

Noun

laik m

1. layman (non-cleric)
2. layman (non-professional)

Derived terms

• laický m

See also

• amatér m

Latvian

Noun

laik m

1. vocative singular of laiks

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From English like.

Verb

laik

1. like

Polish

Etymology

From Latin laicus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?la.ik/

Noun

laik m pers

1. layman (non-cleric)
2. layman (non-professional)

   Synonyms: amator, dyletant

Declension

Further reading

• laik in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• laik in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?ik/
• Hyphenation: la?ik

Noun

làik m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)

1. layman (non-cleric)
2. layman (non-professional)

Declension

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English like

Noun

laik

1. wish, desire

Verb

laik

1. an auxiliary verb which indicates the immediate future tense
2. (infinitive) to be willing
3. like
4. want

Turkish

Etymology

Borrowed from French laïque.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?l?.ic/

Adjective

laik (comparative daha laik, superlative en laik)

1. secular

Noun

laik (definite accusative lai?i, plural laikler)

1. secularist, laicist

See also

• laiklik
• laisizm

English

Etymology

From Scots claik, from Old Norse klaka.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /kle?k/

Verb

claik (third-person singular simple present claiks, present participle claiking, simple past and past participle claiked)

1. (Scotland) To honk or cry like a goose.

Noun

claik (plural claiks)

1. (Scotland) The cry of a goose, or other bird.
2. (Scotland) Gossip; a gossip.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 79:

     you might hide with your lass on the top of Ben Nevis and have your bit pleasure there, but ten to one when you got up to go home there'd be Mistress Munro or some claik of her kidney, near sniggering herself daft with delight at your shame.

3. The barnacle goose.

Anagrams

• laick

Scots

Etymology

From Old Norse klaka, from or related to Proto-Germanic *klukkw?n? (“to cluck”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /klek/

Noun

claik (plural claiks)

1. honk (of a goose)
2. gossip
3. barnacle goose