Ik
See also: Appendix:Variations of "ik"
English
Etymology
From Ik Icé-tód.
Proper noun
Ik (usually uncountable, plural Ik)
- An ethnic group in northeastern Uganda near the border with Kenya.
- (uncountable) The language spoken by the Ik ethnic group.
Translations
Anagrams
French
Etymology
From Ik Icé-tód.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ik/
Proper noun
Ik m
- 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
- 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
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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.