rieken

Meaning

1. (formal) to stink
2. (Belgium,informal) to smell (i.e. to produce, give off a smell)
3. (Belgium,informal) to smell (i.e. to sense a smell)

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.