ek

• ik (Cape Afrikaans or archaic), ekke (emphatic or marked variant)

From Dutch ik, from Middle Dutch ic, from Old Dutch ik, from Proto-West Germanic *ik, from Proto-Germanic *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂om (“I”).

• IPA^(key): /æk/, (Cape dialect) /ɛk/

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ek (object my, possessive my)

1. I (subject)
   • 1976, Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, page 19:

     Hy het na my geskop, maar ek het dit verwag en het vinnig my been gelig en dwars gedraai.

     He kicked towards me, but I expected this and quickly lifted my leg and turned it sidewards.

   • 1994, in Annemarié Van Niekerk, Vrouevertellers. 1843-1993, Tafelberg-Uitgewers (publ.), page 308.

     " […] Ek is jou vader. Ek sal jou doodslaan as jy nie luister nie!"

     " […] I am your father. I shall beat you to death if you do not listen!"

   • 2011, Kashiefa, Sedick, Zakeer & Sedeeqa Jacobs, "Die pad is toe", in No Land! No House! No Vote! Voices from Symphony Way, Pambazuka Press (publ.), page 132.

     Ek het nog nooit 'n huis gehad nie, my ouers het ook nog nooit een besit nie

     I have never owned a house, my parents also have never possessed one either.

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

• IPA^(key): /ek/

ek (Kana spelling エㇰ, plural ariki)

1. (intransitive) to come

• ik

ek

1. (Barmen) I (first person pronoun)

• mek (“me (dative/accusative)”)
• du (“thou”)
• dek (“thee (dative/accusative)”)
• sek (“reflexive pronoun”)
• hä (“he”)
• se (“she/they”)
• et (“it”)

• Charlotte Elling, edited by Paul Decker, Mehr Vertellsches on Vääschkes uttem Wopperdal, Verlag Edition Köndgen, s.a. [2017]; by the Vorwort by Paul Decker Charlotte Elling is from Barmen, and according to publisher it's in "Barmer Platt"

Back-formation from ek-.

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• IPA^(key): [ek]
• Hyphenation: ek

ek

1. let's go, hurry up

   Ek! Ni ne havas multan tempon.

   Let's go! We don't have much time.

From Hindi एक (ek).

ek

1. one

• Fiji Hindi Dictionary
• Moag, Rodney F. (1977) Fiji Hindi: A basic course and reference grammar‎^[1], Canberra, Australia: Australian National University Press, →ISBN
• Siegel, Jeff (1977) Say it in Fiji Hindi, Australia: Pacific Publications, →ISBN, page 28

For pronunciation and definitions of ek – see 億 (“hundred million; hundred thousand; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 億).

For pronunciation and definitions of ek – see 厄 (“harrowing; miserable; disaster; calamity; catastrophe; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 厄).

For pronunciation and definitions of ek – see 啞 (“laughter; sound of laughing”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 啞).

For pronunciation and definitions of ek – see 憶 (“to recall; to recollect; to think back; to remember; to bear in mind; to memorize; to remember; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 憶).

For pronunciation and definitions of ek – see 扼 (“to grasp; to clutch; to guard; to control; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 扼).

For pronunciation and definitions of ek – see 抑 (“to press down; to keep down; to repress; to suppress; to restrain; to restrict; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 抑).

For pronunciation and definitions of ek – see 溢 (“to overflow; to brim over; to flood; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 溢).

For pronunciation and definitions of ek – see 益 (“to overflow; affluent; well-off; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 益).

For pronunciation and definitions of ek – see 臆 (“chest; breast; bosom; thought; etc.”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 臆).

From Old Norse ek, from Proto-Norse ᛖᚲ (ek), from Proto-Germanic *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

• ég (modern)
• eg (archaic, poetic)

ek

1. (archaic) I

   Ek spurða þá, hvar ek skyldi sitja.

   I asked then, where I should sit.

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

ek

1. first-person singular active present indicative of aka

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ἐκ (ek). Also seen as a borrowing from Latin ex, with the x changed to just k so not to interfere with ex-, which shares the same origin.

• IPA^(key): /ɛk/

ek

1. (general sense) out
2. (indicating motion) out, out of, out from, from

   Adportez stulo ek ta chambro ― Bring a chair out of that room.

   Lu prenis ca folio ek la tir-kesto ― He took this leaf from the drawer.

3. of, made from, made of (of materials)

   Ek quon esas ta tasi? ― What are the cups made of?

   Li esas ek porcelano. ― They are made of china.

4. (mathematics) (indication fractional parts) out of

   Nonadek ek cent. ― Ninety out of a hundred (90%).

   En ca armeo, 5 ek 100 esas ocidita, 10 ek 100 vundita.

   In this army, five out of (every) 100 were killed, and ten per cent were wounded.

• ek-

• ex-

From Sanskrit एक (eka), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *Háykas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁óynos. Compare Hindi एक (ek).

ek

1. one; 1

Ultimately from Latin ecce. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Old Spanish or Italian?”)

ek (Latin spelling)

1. lo!, behold!, see!, look!

• (phonetic) IPA^(key): [ek]
• (phonemic) IPA^(key): /jek/
• Bender phonemes: {yȩk}

ek

1. fish

• Marshallese–English Online Dictionary

• e

From French avec.

• IPA^(key): [ek]

ek

1. and

ek

1. with

• eek, eke

From Old English ēac, from Proto-Germanic *auk.

• IPA^(key): /ɛːk/

ek

1. also, in addition, besides

• ekename

• eake

• Scots: eik, ek
• English: eke
• ⇒ Middle English: ekename
  • ⇒ English: nickname (via rebracketing)

• IPA^(key): /ɛk/, /ek/

ek

1. Alternative form of ik.

• ei (Föhr-Amrum)
• ai (Mooring)

From Old Norse ekki. Cognate with Danish ikke, Faroese ikki, Norwegian Nynorsk ikkje.

• IPA^(key): [ɛkʰ]

ek

1. (Sylt) not

   „Di rocht Saaken ken di Oogen ek se“, sair di Litji Prins, fuar höm dit tö morki.

   “The important things cannot be seen with the eyes,” said the Little Prince, so he would remember this.

ek

1. my, mine (first-person, singular, possesive pronoun)

• María de los Angeles Colós, José Guzman, and John Peabody Harrington (1930s) Chochenyo Field Notes (Survey of California and Other Indian Langauges)‎^[2], Unpublished

From Danish eg, from Old Norse eik, from Proto-Germanic *aiks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”). Cognate with Swedish ek, Norwegian Nynorsk, Faroese, and Icelandic eik, German Eiche, and English oak.

ek m (definite singular eken, indefinite plural eker, definite plural ekene)

1. an oak

• eik

From Proto-West Germanic *aik.

ēk f

1. oak

• Köbler, Gerhard, Altfriesisches Wörterbuch (4th edition 2014)

• iak — Old East Norse
• -k — enclitic

From Proto-Norse ᛖᚲ (ek, “I”), from Proto-Germanic *ek (“I”), from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂ (“I”).

• IPA^(key): /ek/

ek

1. I (first-person singular pronoun)
   • c. 900, Vǫluspá, verse 1, line 1:

     Hliods bið ec allar... (Codex Regius, circa 1270)
     Hlioðs bið ek allar... (Hauksbók, circa 1306)
     Hljóðs bið ek allar... (normalised orthography)

     For silence I ask all...

   • 1220-1240, Egils saga, chapter 3, line 16:

     "Þótt þetta vandræði hafi nú borit oss at hendi, þá mun eigi langt til, at sama vandræði mun til yðvar koma, því at Haraldr, ætla ek, at skjótt mun hér koma, þá er hann hefir alla menn þrælkat ok áþját, sem hann vill, á Norðmæri ok í Raumsdal." (Norse)

     translation by William Charles Green:

     Though this danger now touches us, before long the same will come to you; for Harold, as I ween, will hasten hither when he has enthralled and oppressed after his will all in North Mæra and Raumsdale.

     translation by Hallvard Lie:

     Though this trouble have now lighted on our hand, 'twill not be long ere the same trouble shall come upon you; for Harald, I ween, will shortly hither come, soon as he hath all men thralled and enslaved, according to this will, in Northmere and Raumsdale.

• Icelandic: ég
• Faroese: eg, jeg
• Norn: eg
• Norwegian: ej, é, eig, í, æg, æj, æ, je, jæj (dialectal)
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: eg
• Jamtish: jeg
• Dalian: ik, ig
  • Elfdalian: ig
• Old Swedish: iak, iæk, iag, iagh, iach (late), ᛁᛆᚴ, ᛁᛅᚴ (Runic)
  • Swedish: jag
• Old Danish: iak, iæk, iægh, æk, ak
  • Danish: jeg, a, æ, ja, jæ (dialectal)
    • Norwegian Bokmål: jeg
  • Scanian: jağ
  • Jutish: æ
• Old Gutnish: iek

• “ek”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Proto-West Germanic *aik, from Proto-Germanic *aiks.

• IPA^(key): /ɛːk/

ēk f

1. oak

• Middle Low German: êke, êk
  • Low German: Eek
  • Plautdietsch: Ieekj

ek

1. Romanization of ᛖᚲ
2. Romanization of ᛖᚴ

Rohingya cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : ek

• (Arabic) اࣦكۡ
• (Bengali) এক
• (Myanmar) ဧက်
• (Hanifi) 𐴀𐴠𐴑 (ek)

From Sanskrit एक (eka, “one”).

• IPA^(key): [ɛk̚]

ek

1. one

From Old Norse eik, from Proto-Germanic *aiks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”).

• IPA^(key): /eːk/

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ek c

1. oak

• ekollon (“acorn”)
• korkek (“cork oak”)

• ek in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• ek in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• ek in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

From Proto-Tocharian *ëk, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ókʷs, from *h₃okʷ- (“to see”) + the noun-forming ending *-s. Compare Tocharian A ak.

ek m

1. (anatomy) eye

   Eśane klausane ṣeycer-me kartstse yolo lkātsi klyaussisa.

   "You had eyes and ears to see and hear good and evil."

• ekaṣṣe
• eśneṣṣe
• eśanetstse

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “ek”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 78-79

ek (definite accusative eki, plural ekler)

1. annex
2. (publishing) supplement (of newspapers, magazines &c.)

   Synonym: ilave

3. addition
4. attachment
5. addendum
6. (linguistics) morpheme that is attached to a word
   1. affix
   2. suffix

Inflection
Nominative	ek
Definite accusative	eki
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	ek	ekler
Definite accusative	eki	ekleri
Dative	eke	eklere
Locative	ekte	eklerde
Ablative	ekten	eklerden
Genitive	ekin	eklerin
Possessive forms Nominative Singular Plural 1st singular ekim eklerim 2nd singular ekin eklerin 3rd singular eki ekleri 1st plural ekimiz eklerimiz 2nd plural ekiniz ekleriniz 3rd plural ekleri ekleri Definite accusative Singular Plural 1st singular ekimi eklerimi 2nd singular ekini eklerini 3rd singular ekini eklerini 1st plural ekimizi eklerimizi 2nd plural ekinizi eklerinizi 3rd plural eklerini eklerini Dative Singular Plural 1st singular ekime eklerime 2nd singular ekine eklerine 3rd singular ekine eklerine 1st plural ekimize eklerimize 2nd plural ekinize eklerinize 3rd plural eklerine eklerine Locative Singular Plural 1st singular ekimde eklerimde 2nd singular ekinde eklerinde 3rd singular ekinde eklerinde 1st plural ekimizde eklerimizde 2nd plural ekinizde eklerinizde 3rd plural eklerinde eklerinde Ablative Singular Plural 1st singular ekimden eklerimden 2nd singular ekinden eklerinden 3rd singular ekinden eklerinden 1st plural ekimizden eklerimizden 2nd plural ekinizden eklerinizden 3rd plural eklerinden eklerinden Genitive Singular Plural 1st singular ekimin eklerimin 2nd singular ekinin eklerinin 3rd singular ekinin eklerinin 1st plural ekimizin eklerimizin 2nd plural ekinizin eklerinizin 3rd plural eklerinin eklerinin
Predicative forms Singular Plural 1st singular ekim eklerim 2nd singular eksin eklersin 3rd singular ek ektir ekler eklerdir 1st plural ekiz ekleriz 2nd plural eksiniz eklersiniz 3rd plural ekler eklerdir

• ön ek

ek

1. additional
2. supplementary

ek

1. second-person singular imperative of ekmek

ek

1. someone; anyone

From Old Frisian āk, from Proto-West Germanic *auk.

ek

1. also, too

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

From Proto-Tai *ʔeːkᴰ (“yoke”), from Middle Chinese 軛 (MC 'eak, “yoke”). Cognate with Thai แอก (ɛ̀ɛk), Lao ແອກ (ʼǣk), Tai Dam ꪵꪮꪀ, Shan ဢႅၵ်ႇ (ʼèk), Ahom 𑜒𑜢𑜀𑜫 (ʼik).

• (Standard Zhuang) IPA^(key): /ʔeːk˧˥/
• Tone numbers: ek⁷
• Hyphenation: ek

ek (Sawndip forms 兀 or 𰠪 or 枙 or 𣐎, 1957–1982 spelling ek)

1. yoke