aik

See also: -aik, aik-, and aik.

English

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Old Norse aka (“to drive, sail, navigate”), from Proto-Germanic *akaną.

Verb

aik (third-person singular simple present aiks, present participle aiking, simple past and past participle aiked)

1. (Northern England, rare) To drive.

   The herd aiked his neat out to the leas.

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language

Anagrams

• AKI, KIA, Kai, Kia, kai

Central Nahuatl

Adverb

aik

1. never.

References

• Herrera López, Hermilo (2015); Diccionario de la lengua Náhuatl de Texcoco, Instituto Mexiquense de los pueblos indígenas. Academia de la lengua náhuatl de Texcoco, Mexico City, Mexico.

Mualang

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aiʔ/

Noun

aik

1. water

Further reading

• Smith, A. (2017) The Languages of Borneo: A Comprehensive Classification, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

Scots

Etymology 1

From Middle English ook, oke, aik, ake, from Old English āc (also as Old English ǣċ), from Proto-West Germanic *aik, from Proto-Germanic *aiks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”).

Alternative forms

• ake
• yik (south)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ek/
• (south) IPA^(key): /jɪk/

Noun

aik (plural aiks)

1. (now obsolete, poetic) oak
   • 1792, Robert Burns, Lady Mary Ann:

     Young Charlie Cochran was the sprout of an aik

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:

     And then he saw the cause, for Heriot was coming down in a furious flood, sixty yards wide, tearing at the roots of the aiks and flinging red waves against the drystone dykes.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Derived terms

• aiken

References

• “aik, n.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.

Etymology 2

Compare aig.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ek/

Verb

aik (third-person singular simple present aiks, present participle aikin, simple past aiked, past participle aiked)

1. (Caithness) to drive

Further reading

• “aik, v.” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.