different between sice vs sike

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sa?s/

Etymology 1

Noun

sice (plural sices)

1. Alternative spelling of sais

Etymology 2

Middle English sice or sis, from Anglo-Norman, from Old French sis, sies. Doublet of six.

Alternative forms

• sise, size

Noun

sice (plural sices)

1. (dice games, obsolete) The number six in a game of dice.
   • 1680, Thomas Godwyn, Romanae historiae anthologia recognita et aucta (page 112)

     In their common game, the most fortunate throw is thought to have been three Sices […]

Related terms

• ace, deuce, trey, cater, cinque

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (saisu)

Translations

Anagrams

• ECIS, ECSI, EICs, ESCI, ICEs, Ices, ices

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?s?t?s?]

Adverb

sice

1. admittedly

   sice... ale - albeit... however

   Cesta byla sice hezká, ale p?íliš namáhavá

English

Alternative forms

• syke

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?k/
• Rhymes: -a?k
• Homophones: psych, cyc

Etymology 1

From Middle English sike, the northern form of Old English s?? (see sitch) and also from Old Norse sík; both from Proto-Germanic *s?k? (“slow flowing water; trickle”). Cognate with Norwegian sik. Compare Scots sheuch.

Noun

sike (plural sikes)

1. (Scotland, Northumbria) A gutter or ditch; a small stream that frequently dries up in the summer.
   • A Scotch Winter Evening in 1512

     The wind made wave the red weed on the dike. bedoven in dank deep was every sike.

Etymology 2

From Middle English siken, from Old English s?can (“to sigh”), from Proto-West Germanic *s?kan (“to sigh”). Doublet of siche and sigh.

Verb

sike (third-person singular simple present sikes, present participle siking, simple past and past participle siked)

1. (archaic or Northern England) To sigh or sob.

Noun

sike (plural sikes)

1. (archaic or Northern England) A sigh.

Etymology 3

Variant of psych.

Interjection

sike

1. (slang) Alternative form of psych

Anagrams

• EIKs, seki, skie

Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowed from German Ziege.

Noun

sike

1. goat

Manchu

Romanization

sike

1. Romanization of ????

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Arabic ??????? (sikka).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??k?/

Noun

sike ?

1. coin

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• sika (a-infinitive)

Verb

sike (present tense sik or sikar or siker, past tense seik or sika or sikt, supine sike or sika or sikt, past participle siken or sika or sikt, present participle sikande, imperative sik)

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References

• “sike” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Turkish

Noun

sike

1. dative singular of sik