cheke

• IPA^(key): /t͡ɕeke/

cheke (Bengali script চেকে)

1. sieve

• van Breugel, Seino. 2015. Atong-English dictionary, second edition. Available online: https://www.academia.edu/487044/Atong_English_Dictionary.

• cheek, cheeke, chike, choke, chooke, chyke
• chieke (Gower); cheake (Kent); cheoke (Early Middle English, Worcestershire)

Originally two distinct nouns:

• Old English ċēace, from Proto-West Germanic *kākā, from Proto-Germanic *kēkǭ.
• Old English ċēoce, from Proto-West Germanic *keukā, from Proto-Germanic *keukǭ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɛ̝ːk(ə)/, /ˈt͡ʃɔ̝ːk(ə)/ (from ċēace)
• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃeːk(ə)/, /ˈt͡ʃoːk(ə)/ (from ċēoce)

cheke (plural chekes or cheken)

1. jaw, jawbone
2. cheek (side of face)
3. fauces (opening of the mouth)
4. (rare, figurative) side

• acheken
• choken

• English: cheek; choke
• Scots: cheek

• “chẹ̄ke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “chōke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

cheke

1. alternative form of choken