ik

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ik"

Translingual

Symbol

ik

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

English
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Alternative forms

Phrase

ik

  1. (Internet slang, text messaging) Initialism of I know.
    Coordinate term: idk (“I don't know”)
    ik we already talked about this, but hear me out.

Afrikaans

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ək/

Pronoun

ik

  1. (Cape Afrikaans or archaic) Alternative form of ek

Albanian

Verb

ik

  1. second-person singular imperative of iki

Angguruk Yali

Noun

ik

  1. water

References

Bergish

Alternative forms
  • ek (Barmen (Wuppertal))

Pronoun

ik

  1. (East Bergish, more specifically Mölmsch) I (first person pronoun)

Further reading
  • H. K. vam Hingberg (that's H. Kühne), Ut auler un neier Tied. Erzählungen in niederdeutscher Mundart [From old and new times (in Low Franconian, more specifically Mölmsch). Stories in Low German dialect (in Standard High German)], 1872 (vol. I)

Danish

Adverb

ik

  1. Alternative form of ik'

Dutch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Dutch ic, from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Proto-West Germanic *ik, from Proto-Germanic *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. Compare Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), German ich, English I, Danish jeg. See I (English, etymology 3).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): (stressed) /ɪk/, (unstressed) /ək/
  • audio(file)
  • Hyphenation: ik
  • Rhymes: -ɪk

Pronoun

ik

  1. I (first-person singular personal pronoun)

Inflection
Dutch personal pronouns
subject object possessive reflexive genitive5
singular full unstr. full unstr. full unstr. pred.
1st person Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) 'k1 mij me mijn m'n1 mijne me mijner, mijns
2nd person jij je jou je jouw je jouwe je jouwer, jouws
2nd person archaic or regiolectal gij ge u – uw – uwe u uwer, uws
2nd person formal u – u – uw – uwe zich uwer, uws
3rd person masculine hij ie1 hem 'm1 zijn z'n1 zijne zich zijner, zijns
3rd person feminine zij ze haar h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 haar h'r1, 'r1, d'r1 hare zich harer, haars
3rd person neuter het 't1 het 't1 zijn z'n1 zijne zich zijner, zijns
plural
1st person wij we ons – ons, onze2 – onze ons onzer, onzes
2nd person jullie je jullie je jullie je – je –
2nd person archaic or regiolectal6 gij ge u – uw – uwe u uwer, uws
2nd person formal u – u – uw – uwe zich uwer, uws
3rd person zij ze hen3, hun4 ze hun – hunne zich hunner, huns
1) Not as common in written language.
2) Inflected as an adjective.
3) In prescriptivist use, used only as direct object (accusative).
4) In prescriptivist use, used only as indirect object (dative).		 5) Archaic. Nowadays used for formal, literary or poetic purposes, and in fixed expressions.
6) To differentiate from the singular gij, and in a similar vein to "you lot" or "you guys" in English, it is common to use gijlui ("you people") or gijlieden ("you people") or one of their contracted variants, and their corresponding objects, possessives and reflexives, in the plural.

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Afrikaans: ek
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: eke
  • Jersey Dutch: äk
  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: ek

References
  1. Friedrich Kluge (1989), “ik”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN

German Low German

Alternative forms
  • (enclitic) -'k, 'k
  • (Waldeckisch, when strongly emphasised; scientific spelling) ikə
  • ick
  • (as alternative form of ick, enclitic) 'ck
  • (as alternative form of ick, when strongly emphasised, rare) icke
  • (Eastphalia, Lippe, County of Mark, Ruhr area) ek, eck
  • (Low Prussian) öck, eck

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Proto-Germanic *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɪk/

Pronoun

ik

  1. (most northern and western dialects) I (first person singular pronoun)
    Ik kem, ik sach, ik wünd.
    I came, I saw, I conquered. (Veni, vidi, vici. Attributed to Julius Caesar.)

Declension

In Störmede:[1]

1st person2nd person3rd person
MasculineFeminineNeuter
Singular Nominative ikdiuhoisoiiät
(Genitive) (van meune)(van deune)(van seune)(van iähre)(van seune)
Dative meudeuiähneiähriähne
Accusative soiiät
Plural Nominative weujeusoi
(Genitive) (van use)(van jiue)(van iähre)
Dative usjiuiähnen
Accusative soi
  • mien (“my, mine”, possessive); mi (“me”, dative (also generally used in place of the accusative)); mik; wi pl (“we”)
  • Sauerländisch: mey, mik
  • Paderbornisch: mey/my, mik; plural: wey/wy

See also
  • (Plautdietsch) ekj, etj

References
  1. Franz Kemper: Stürmeder Platt: Wi et lutt düt un dat. 1998, p. 18

Gothic

Romanization

ik

  1. Romanization of 𐌹𐌺

Kaqchikel

Noun

ik

  1. sun
  2. chili

Latvian

Adverb

ik

  1. every

Marshallese

Noun

ik

  1. Alternative spelling of ek

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English ic, perhaps with influence from Old Norse ek; both from Proto-Germanic *ik, *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂ (“I”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ik/

Pronoun

ik

  1. (chiefly Northern dialectal) Alternative form of I
    • circa 1300, Homilies:
      Forthi wil I of my pouert, Schau sum thing that ik haf in hert, [...]
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • circa 1300, Cursor Mundi:
      Her ik haf a litil spend, In word eftir þat ik entend, [...]
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
    • circa 1390, Chaucer:
      But ik am oold me list not pleye for age.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Descendants
  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Middle Low German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɪk/

Pronoun

ik

  1. I (first person singular nominative)

Declension
Middle Low German personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative genitive
1st person singular Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) (ek)mî (mê, mik, mek)mîn (mîner)
2nd person singular dûdî (dê, dik, dek)dîn (dîner)
3rd person singular
m hê (hî, hie)ēne, en (ȫne, ȫn)ēme, em (ȫme, en)sîn (sîner)
n it (et)
f sê (sî, sie, sü̂)ēre, ēr (ērer, ȫrer)
1st person plural wî (wê, wie)uns (ûs, ös, ü̂sik)unser (ûser)
2nd person plural gî (jê, î)jû (jûwe, û, jük, gik)jûwer (ûwer)
3rd person plural sê (sî, sie)em, öm, jüm (en, ēnen, ȫnen)ēre, ēr (ērer, ȫrer)

For an explanation of the forms in brackets see here.

Descendants
  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
    • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
      Low Prussian: eck, öck

North Frisian

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Proto-West Germanic *ik, from Proto-Germanic *ek, *ik, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Compare Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), German ich, English I, Danish jeg.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɪk/

Pronoun

ik

  1. I

Old Dutch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ik.

Pronoun

ik

  1. I

Declension
Old Dutch personal pronouns
1st person Singular Plural
Nominative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), ic, ih wī, wīr
Accusative mī, mik, *mic uns, unsig
Genitive mīn unsa, *unser
Dative mī uns, unsig
2nd person Singular Plural
Nominative thu, tu gī, ir
Accusative thī, thik, *thic iu,
Genitive thīn iuwa, *iuwer
Dative thī iu
3rd person Masculine Feminine Neuter
Nominative hē, hie sia it
Accusative imo sia it
Genitive sīn, is iro is
Dative imo iro imo
Plural
Nominative sia, sie (masc. plur.)
Accusative sia, sie (masc. plur.)
Genitive iro
Dative im

Descendants
  • Middle Dutch: ic, icke
    • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Further reading
  • “ik”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ik, from Proto-Germanic *ek, *ik, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Compare Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Old English iċ, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Old High German ih, Old Norse ek, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

Pronoun

ik

  1. I

Inflection
Old Frisian personal pronoun declensions
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd m 3rd f 3rd n 1st 2nd 3rd
nominative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) thū hī hiū, hiō hit wī jī hiā
accusative mī thī hine hiā hit ūs jū, jō hiā
dative mī thī him hire, hiāre him ūs jū, jō him, hirem, hiārem
genitive mīn thīn sīn hire, hiāre sīn ūser jūwer hira, hiāra

Descendants
  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
  • Saterland Frisian: iek
  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ik, from Proto-Germanic *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Compare Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Old English iċ, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), Old High German ih, Old Norse ek, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

Pronoun

ik

  1. I

Declension
Old Saxon personal pronouns
Personal pronouns
Singular 1. 2. 3. m 3. f 3. n
Nominative Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) thū hē siu it
Accusative mī, me, mik thī, thik ina sia
Dative mī thī imu iru it
Genitive mīn thīn is ira is
Dual 1. 2. - - -
Nominative wit git - - -
Accusative unk ink - - -
Dative
Genitive unkero, unka

inker, inka

 - - -
Plural 1. 2. 3. m 3. f 3. n
Nominative wī, we gī, ge sia sia siu
Accusative ūs, unsik eu, iu, iuu
Dative ūs im
Genitive ūser euwar, iuwer, iuwar, iuwero, iuwera iro

Descendants
  • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)
    • Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

Pass Valley Yali

Noun

ik

  1. water

References

Pwaamei

Etymology

From Proto-Oceanic *kutu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *kutu, from Proto-Austronesian *kuCu.

Noun

ik

  1. louse

References
  • Jim Hollyman, K. J. Hollyman, Études sur les langues du Nord de la Nouvelle-Calédonie (1999), page 52

Salar

Etymology

From Proto-Turkic *īk. Cognate with Azerbaijani iy, Turkish iğ, Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value).

Pronunciation
  • (Shixiang, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [ix]

Noun

ik

  1. spindle

References
  • Potanin, G.N. (1893), “их”, in Тангутско-Тибетская окраина Китая и Центральная Монголия (in Russian), page 427

Scots

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Old English ic (“I”, pronoun), from Proto-West Germanic *ik (“I”, pronoun).

Pronoun

ik

  1. (rare) I. Now mostly used to be emphatical.
    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, […]

Synonyms

See also

Tobian

Etymology

From Proto-Austronesian *Sikan.

Noun

ik

  1. Fish

Alternative forms

Vandalic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ek

Pronoun

ik

  1. I

References
  1. https://glosbe.com/en/xvn/I

Wastek

Noun

ik

  1. wind

References

West Frisian

Etymology

From Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value), from Proto-West Germanic *ik, from Proto-Germanic *ek, *ik, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɪk/
  • (unstressed) IPA(key): /k/

Pronoun

ik

  1. I (first person singular nominative pronoun)

Inflection
West Frisian personal pronouns
Number Person Nominative Objective Possessive
Normal Reflexive Determiner Pronoun
Singular First Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value) my mysels myn mines
Second Informal do/dû1 dy dysels dyn dines
Formal jo jo josels jo jowes
Third Masculine hy him himsels syn sines
Feminine sy/hja1 har harsels har harres
Neuter it it himsels syn sines
Plural First wy ús ússels ús uzes
Second jim(me) jim(me) jimsels/jinsels jim(me) jimmes
Third sy/hja1 har(ren) harsels har(ren) harres
1. Now mostly archaic and unused

Further reading
  • “ik (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

Zealandic

Pronoun

ik

  1. I
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