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Definitions and meaning of eke

eke

Translingual

Symbol

eke

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Ekit.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Ekit terms

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: ēk, IPA^(key): /iːk/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ik/
• Rhymes: -iːk
• Homophone: eek

Etymology 1

The noun is derived from Middle English eke (“addition, increase, enlargement”), from Old English ēaca, from Proto-Germanic *aukô, from *aukaną (“to increase, add, enlarge”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg- (“to enlarge, increase”). The English noun is cognate with Old Frisian āka (“addition, increase; bonus”), Old Norse auki (“growth, increase, proliferation”).

The verb is derived partly:

• from the noun; and
• from Middle English eken (“to increase, add, enlarge”) [and other forms], from three distinct verbs (1) Old English īeċan (“to increase, add, enlarge”) (transitive), (2) ēacan (“to be enlarged or increased”), and (3) ēacian, all from Proto-Germanic *aukaną (“to grow, increase”); see further above.

The English verb is cognate with Latin augeō (“to augment, increase; to enlarge, expand, spread; to lengthen; to exaggerate; to enrich; to honour; (figuratively) to exalt, praise”), Old English ēac (“also”), Old Norse auka (“to augment, increase; to add; to exceed, surpass”), Icelandic auka (“to augment, increase to add; to exceed, surpass”), (Danish øge (“to enhance; to increase”), Norwegian Bokmål øke (“to increase”), Norwegian Nynorsk auka (“to increase”), Swedish öka (“to increase”)).

Noun

eke (plural ekes)

1. (obsolete except British, dialectal) An addition.
2. (beekeeping, archaic) A small stand on which a beehive is placed.
3. (beekeeping) A spacer put between or over or under hive parts to make more space.

Derived terms

• ekeing (noun)

Translations

Verb

eke (third-person singular simple present ekes, present participle eking or ekeing, simple past and past participle eked)

1. (transitive) Chiefly in the form eke out: to add to, to augment; to increase; to lengthen.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• eke out
• eker

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English ek, eek, eke (“also”) [and other forms], from Old English ēac, ǣc, ēc (“also”), from Proto-West Germanic *auk, from Proto-Germanic *auk (“also, too; furthermore, in addition”), then either:

• from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg- (“to enlarge, increase”); or
• from Pre-Germanic *h₂ew (“away from, off; again”) + *g(ʰ)e (postpositional intensifying particle meaning ‘at any rate, indeed, in fact’)

The English word is cognate with Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌺 (auk, “also; for, because; but also”), Old Frisian âk, Old High German ouh (“also, as well, too”) (Middle High German ouch, modern German auch (“also, as well, too”)), Old Norse auk (“also; and”) (Danish og (“and”), Swedish och (“and”), ock (“(dated) also, as well as, too”)), Old Saxon ôk, Dutch ook (“also, too; moreover; either”), Saterland Frisian ook, uk (“also, too”), West Frisian ek (“also, too”).

Adverb

eke (not comparable)

2. (archaic) Also; in addition to.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Eek, Kee, eek, kee

Hungarian

Etymology

Borrowed from a Chuvash-type Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). Compare the Turkish verb form ek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛkɛ]
• Hyphenation: eke
• Rhymes: -kɛ

Noun

eke (plural ekék)

1. plough (UK), plow (US)

Declension

Derived terms

References

Further reading

• eke in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
• eke in Nóra Ittzés, editor, A magyar nyelv nagyszótára [A Comprehensive Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (Nszt.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 2006–2031 (work in progress; published a–ez as of 2024).

Indonesian

Etymology

From informal Dutch ikke (standard Dutch ik), from Middle Dutch ic, from Old Dutch ik, from Proto-Germanic *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. Compare to Afrikaans ek. Doublet of ego.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛkə]
• Hyphenation: èkê

Pronoun

eke

1. (colloquial or dated) I: The speaker or writer, referred to as the grammatical subject, of a sentence

   Synonyms: aku, saya, gua, gue

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *heke (compare with Tongan heka; Tahitian eʻe; South Marquesan eʻe; North Marquesan eke; Hawaiian eʻe) from Proto-Oceanic *sake (compare with Fijian cake (“up”)), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *sakay (“to ride on something”) (compare with Ilocano sakáy (“to ride, to mound”) and Tagalog sakáy (“passenger, load”)). Sense of "surfing" from overlap with heke. Doublet of ekeeke.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeke/

Verb

eke

1. to climb, to ascend, to rise
2. to mount, to ride on
3. to embark
4. to surf

   Synonym: heke

5. to raft

   Synonym: heke

6. to place something on
7. to achieve, to attain

Noun

eke

1. embarking, boarding
2. surfing

   Synonym: heke

3. rafting, rafter

   Synonym: heke

Related terms

• whakaeke

References

Further reading

• “eke” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Middle English

Adverb

eke

1. alternative form of ek

Pali

Numeral

eke

1. inflection of eka (“one”):
   1. masculine nominative/accusative/vocative plural
   2. feminine vocative singular

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish, see ek (“oak”).

Noun

eke n

1. (uncountable) wood of oak

Declension

Turkish

Noun

eke

1. dative singular of ek

Volapük

Pronoun

eke

1. dative singular of ek

Yoruba

Etymology

From è- +‎ ké

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /è.ké/

Noun

èké

1. lie, falsehood

   Synonyms: irọ́, idu

2. liar

   Synonyms: elékèé, onírọ́

Derived terms

Descendants

• → Portuguese: equê

Zazaki

Conjunction

eke

1. if

Article

eke

1. the

Source: wiktionary.org