different between wike vs sike

English

Etymology

From Old English wic. See wick (“village”).

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?k

Noun

wike (plural wikes)

1. (obsolete, Britain, dialect) A home; a dwelling.
2. A temporary mark or boundary, such as a tree bough set up in marking out or dividing anything, such as tithes, swaths to be mowed in shared ground, etc.

Anagrams

• Weik

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English wicce.

Adjective

wike

1. Alternative form of wikke

Etymology 2

From Old English wicu.

Noun

wike

1. Alternative form of weke (“week”)

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian wike, from Proto-West Germanic *wik?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?vik?/

Noun

wike c (plural wiken, diminutive wykje)

1. week

Further reading

• “wike (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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