duck
Betekenis (Engels)
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- To quickly lower the head or body, often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something.
- To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw.
- To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid.
- To bow.
- To evade doing something.
- To lower the volume of (a sound) so that other sounds in the mix can be heard more clearly.
- (colloquial) To enter a place for a short moment.
Concepten
eend
woerd
mijden
ontwijken
uit de weg gaan
vermijden
duiken
roddelblad
decoreren
sieren
tooien
uitdossen
versieren
opsieren
eend et
eende-
eenden-
eendebout
bukken
ontvlieden
eendje
onderdompelen
bout
Frequentie
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/dʌk/
Etymologie (Engels)
From Middle English ducken, duken, douken (“to duck, plunge under water, submerge”), from Old English *dūcan (“to dip, dive, duck”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūkan, from Proto-Germanic *dūkaną (“to dip, dive, bend down, stoop, duck”), probably from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewb- (“deep, hollow”) (whence Proto-Germanic *dūbaną (“to dive”)). Cognates Related to Scots dulk (“to duck”), Middle Dutch ducken (“to duck”), Low German ducken (“to duck”), German ducken (“to duck”), Danish dukke, dykke (“to dive”). Related also to Scots dook, douk (“to bathe, drench, soak, baptise”), West Frisian dûke (“to plunge, dive”), Dutch duiken (“to dive, plunge, duck”), Low German duken (“to duck, dive, stoop”), German tauchen (“to dive, plunge, immerse, duck”), Swedish dyka (“to dive, submerge”).
Cognate met Duits
ducken
Cognate met Fries
dûke
Cognate met Nederlands
duiken
Cognate met Duits
tauchen
Cognate met Duits
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