icke

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jump to navigation Jump to search
See also: Icke

German

[edit]

Alternative forms

[edit]
  • ick (conjunctive)

Etymology

[edit]

Borrowed from Low German ick, from Proto-Germanic *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • IPA(key): /ˈɪkə/
  • Audio:(file)

Pronoun

[edit]

icke (emphatic, disjunctive)

  1. (regional, Berlin) I, me
    Als wie icke?
    Do you mean me?

Middle Dutch

[edit]

Pronoun

[edit]

icke

  1. (poetic) Alternative form of ic

Swedish

[edit]

Etymology

[edit]

From Old Swedish ækki, ække, ikke, originally the nominative neuter of ængin (no one, nobody). Related to Danish ikke, Norwegian Bokmål ikke and Norwegian Nynorsk ikkje.

Pronunciation

[edit]
  • IPA(key): /ˈɪkˌɛ/, [ˈî̝k̟ʰːɛ̠̂]
  • Audio:(file)

Adverb

[edit]

icke (not comparable)

  1. (slightly formal or dated outside compounds) not; negation of the verb in a sentence.
    Synonyms: inte, (formal, poetic) ej
    Jag trodde det skulle finnas glass kvar i frysen, men icke
    I thought there would be ice cream left in the freezer, but no (somewhat jocular formality – inte is unidiomatic here)

Derived terms

[edit]

Noun

[edit]

icke n (uncountable)

  1. (logic) the Boolean function "not"

Declension

[edit]

References

[edit]