eik

Meaning

1. (masculine) any oak tree (tree of the genus Quercus)
2. (masculine) oak wood

Concepts

oak

oak tree

terebinth

Orc

roble beech

dike

coigüe beech

dyke

Synonyms

eikenboom

eikenhout

eikeboom

zomereik

Ork

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɛi̯k/

Etymology

From Middle Dutch eike, êke, from Old Dutch *eik, *ēk, from Proto-West Germanic *aik, from Proto-Germanic *aiks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”). The form in ei- is regular in south-eastern dialects, but may also have developed elsewhere after the adjective *eikīn (“oaken”, modern eiken), where umlaut would have hindered the monophthongisation.