luik

From Dutch luik, from Middle Dutch luke.

• IPA^(key): /lœy̯k/

luik (plural luike)

1. hatch
2. shutter

• IPA^(key): /lœy̯k/

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• Hyphenation: luik
• Rhymes: -œy̯k

From Middle Dutch luke, from the (now obsolete) verb luiken. Cognate with German Luke.

luik n (plural luiken, diminutive luikje n)

1. hatch
2. shutter
3. (art) panel, as in a triptych
4. (figuratively) first-rank section, part (of few), e.g. chapter of a plan

• (shutter): blind, blinde

• drieluik
• scheepsluik
• rolluik
• tweeluik
• valluik

• Afrikaans: luik
• → Russian: люк (ljuk)
  • → Armenian: լյուկ (lyuk)
  • → Georgian: ლიუკი (liuḳi)
  • → Ukrainian: люк (ljuk)
• → Sranan Tongo: loiki

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

luik

1. inflection of luiken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

• Kuil, kuil

From Proto-Finnic *luikkoi.

luik (genitive luige, partitive luike)

1. swan
2. (Western) birch trumpet

   Synonyms: karjapasun, (Islands) tõri, (Tartu) piibar

• “luik”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
• luik in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

• leuk, luke

From Old English lōcian, of West Germanic origin.

luik (plural luiks)

1. look
2. examination, inspection

luik (third-person singular simple present luiks, present participle luikin, simple past luikit, past participle luikit)

1. to look
2. to examine, inspect