streek

• Rhymes: -iːk

streek (third-person singular simple present streeks, present participle streeking, simple past and past participle streeked)

1. (archaic, dialect, UK, Scotland, transitive) To stretch.
2. (archaic, dialect, UK, Scotland, transitive) To lay out, as a dead body.

• streeker

• Kester, Sterek, Tereks, skeert

From Dutch streek, from Middle Dutch strēke, from Old Dutch *striki, from Proto-West Germanic *striki, from Proto-Germanic *strikiz.

• IPA^(key): /strɪə̯k/

• Audio

  (file)

streek (plural streke)

1. prank, trick
2. region

• IPA^(key): /streːk/

• Audio

  (file)

• Hyphenation: streek
• Rhymes: -eːk
• Homophone: Streek

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.

streek f (plural streken, diminutive streekje n)

1. region
2. stroke (movement e.g. with a paintbrush)
3. prank, trick, antic

• een vos verliest wel zijn haren, maar niet zijn streken
• jezuïetenstreek
• landstreek
• mijnstreek
• schaamstreek
• streekroman
• streektaal
• streekvervoer

• Afrikaans: streek
• Negerhollands: streek
• → Papiamentu: streek (dated)

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

streek

1. singular past indicative of strijken

• ekster, kreest, sterke, streke

streek (third-person singular simple present streeks, present participle streekin, simple past streekit, past participle streekit)

1. (South Scots, archaic) stretch

   Fower hunder horsemen in yeh streekit line.

• streetch

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

streek c (plural streken, diminutive streekje)

1. line, stripe
2. stroke, stroking movement
3. region
4. trick, prank

• streektaal

• “streek”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011