Ik

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ik"

English

Etymology

Ik Icé-tód

Proper noun

Ik (usually uncountable, plural Ik)

1. An ethnic group in northeastern Uganda near the border with Kenya.
2. (uncountable) The language spoken by the Ik ethnic group.

Translations

Translations

• French: Ik (fr) m

Anagrams

• -ki-, KI, Ki, Ki., kI, ki

French

Etymology

From Ik Icé-tód.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ik/

Proper noun

Ik m

1. Ik (ethnic group)

Scots

Alternative forms

• Ic

Etymology

From Middle English ik, from Old English ic (“I”, pronoun), from Proto-West Germanic *ik (“I”, pronoun).

Pronoun

Ik

1. I

   Wha did that? Ik!

   Who did that? I did!

   • 1375, John Barbour, The Brus:

     For Ik am he, I say the soithly, [...]

     For I am he, I tell you truthfully, […]

See also

Scots personal pronouns

			personal pronoun			possessive pronoun	possessive determiner
			subjective	objective	reflexive
first person	singular		A, I, Ik	me	mysel	mine, mines	mine, my
	plural		we	us, we hiz (emphatic)	oorsels, oorsel wirsels, wirsel	oors wirs	our
second person	singular	standard (formal)	ye you, yow	ye you, yow	yersel yoursel	yers yours	yer your
		Insular (informal)	thoo	thee	thysel, theesel	thines	thy, thee, thees
	plural		ye, yese you, youse	ye, yese you, youse theer	yesels yoursels	yers yours	yer your
third person	singular	masculine	he, e	him, im	himsel, hissel	his, is	his, is
		feminine	scho, she, shu	her, er	hersel	hers	her, er
		neuter	it hit	it hit	itsel hitsel	its hits	its hits
		genderless, nonspecific (formal)	ane	ane	–	–	ane's
	plural		thay	thaim	thaimsel, thaimsels	thairs	thair

References

• “Ik, pron.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 21 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.