rieken
Meaning
- (formal) to stink
- (Belgium,informal) to smell (i.e. to produce, give off a smell)
- (Belgium,informal) to smell (i.e. to sense a smell)
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Etymology
From Middle Dutch rieken, from Old Dutch riecan, from Proto-West Germanic *reukan, from Proto-Germanic *reukaną. Doublet of ruiken. Cognate to English reek.
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