keek

Significat (Anglès)

Verb

To peek; peep.

Noun

A look, especially a quick one; a peek.

Sinònims

look

peep

peek

creeping yellow cress

creeping yellowcress

Traduccions

gucken

spähen

verstohlen gucken

wilde Sumpfkresse

Rorippa sylvestris

kaçamak bakmak

röntgencilik yapmak

görünüvermek

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/kiːk/

Etimologia (Anglès)

Heretat de anglès mitjà: kyken

Cognat amb neerlandès: kijken

Cognat amb estonià: kiikama

Cognat amb alemany: kucken

Cognat amb danès: kigge

Cognat amb suec: kika

Cognat amb islandès: kíkja

In summary

From Middle English kyken, kiken, keken (“to look, peep”), probably from Middle Dutch kiken, kieken or Middle Low German kîken (“to look, peep”), from Old Saxon *kīkan (“to look”), from Proto-West Germanic *kīkan, from Proto-Germanic *kīkaną (“to look”).
Cognate with Dutch kijken (“to look”), German Low German kieken (“to look”), Estonian kiikama (“to look, to peek”), German kucken, gucken (“to look”), Danish kigge, kikke (“to look, peep”), Swedish kika (“to peep, peek, keek, pry”), Icelandic kíkja (“to look, check”). Perhaps related to kick.
The words peek, keek and peep were used more or less synonymously in the 14th and 15th centuries.