steak

(Îngilîzî)

Pircarînî

B2
Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin
/steɪk/
Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

In summary

From Middle English steike, from Old Norse steik (“roast; meat roasted on a stick”). The verb is either from the noun or from steikja (“to roast”). The modern pronunciation shows an irregular change of Early Modern English /ɛː/ to /eɪ/ in the standard language; contrast this with the development of other words such as speak and wreak.

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