different between pyre vs pyke

English

Etymology

From Latin pyra (“pyre, funeral pile”), from Ancient Greek ???? (purá), from ??? (pûr, “fire”), from Proto-Indo-European *péh?wr?.

Doublet of fire.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pa??/
• Hyphenation: pyre
• Rhymes: -a??(r)

Noun

pyre (plural pyres)

1. A funeral pile; a combustible heap on which corpses are burned.
   • For nine long nights, through all the dusky air, The pyres thick flaming shot a dismal glare.—Homer Iliad, p. 31
2. Any heap or pile of combustibles.

Related terms

• pyrée

Translations

Further reading

• pyre on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• prey, rype

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pyre?/, [?pyre?(?)]
• Rhymes: -yre
• Syllabification: py?re

Noun

pyre

1. Alternative form of pyree

Declension

English

Verb

pyke (third-person singular simple present pykes, present participle pyking, simple past and past participle pyked)

1. Obsolete form of peek.
2. Obsolete form of pick.

Noun

pyke (plural pykes)

1. Obsolete form of pike.

Anagrams

• kype

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English p?c, from Proto-West Germanic *p?k, from Proto-Germanic *p?kaz.

Alternative forms

• pike, pik, pyk, pikke, pykke, peke

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pi?k/, /pik/

Noun

pyke (plural pykes)

1. A sharp round point or projection.
2. A point or end of something in general; especially the end of a shoe.
3. A pike; a piercing weapon with a spike affixed.
4. A pickaxe; an axe with a chisel edge on one side.
5. A number of other tools noted for their pointiness.
6. A barb or talon of an animal or a plant.
7. A pike (fish with a barbed mouth (Esox lucius))
8. (rare) A peak; a hill.

Related terms

• pikerel
• piken

Descendants

• English: pike, peak; pick (in part)
• Scots: pike, pick
• Yola: pick

References

• “p??k(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-08.
• “p??k(e, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-08.

Etymology 2

From Old English *piccian.

Verb

pyke

1. Alternative form of piken