streek
Meaning
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- (feminine) region
- (feminine) stroke (movement e.g. with a paintbrush)
- (feminine) prank, trick, antic
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/streːk/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle Dutch strēke, strēec, from Old Dutch *striki, from Proto-West Germanic *striki, from Proto-Germanic *strikiz. In Middle Dutch there may have been a merger of the above noun with a descendant of related Proto-West Germanic *straik. Compare the German distinction between Strich and Streich. The fact that most Dutch dialects with a distinction between original and secondary length point to *striki does not necessarily mean that *straik did not exist (but only that they were merged in favour of the former). Limburgish streik at any rate is from *straik and combines the same meanings as in Dutch.
New
strijken
- (intransitive) to stroke
- (intransitive, transitive) to iron, press (clothes)
- (intransitive) to play a string instrument
- (transitive) to lower (sail)
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