aik
English
Etymology
From Old Norse aka (“to drive, sail, navigate”), from Proto-Germanic *akaną.
Verb
aik (third-person singular simple present aiks, present participle aiking, simple past and past participle aiked)
- (Northern England, Scotland, rare) To drive.
- The herd aiked his neat out to the leas.
References
Scots
Alternative forms
- ake
- yik
Etymology
From Middle English ook, oke, aik, ake, from Old English āc (also as Old English ǣċ), from Proto-Germanic *aiks, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ek/
Further reading
- “aik” in the Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries.
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