eke

• enPR: ēk, IPA^(key): /iːk/
• Rhymes: -iːk
• Homophone: eek

From Middle English eken (“to increase”), from Old English īecan, ēcan or Old English ēacan (“to increase”), from Proto-Germanic *aukaną (“increase”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éwg-e-ti, from *h₂ewg- (“to increase”). Cognate with Norwegian Bokmål øke, Danish øge, Icelandic auka, Swedish öka, Latin augeō, Old English ēac (“also”).

eke (third-person singular simple present ekes, present participle eking, simple past and past participle eked)

1. (obsolete except in "eke out") To increase; to add to, augment, lengthen.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book I, canto V:

     Here endlesse penance for one fault I pay, / But that redoubled crime with vengeance new / Thou biddest me to eeke?

eke (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) also
   • 1557, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, The Soote Season

     The soote season, that bud and bloom forth brings / With green hath clad the hill and eke the vale; […]

eke (plural ekes)

1. (obsolete) An addition.
   • Geddes

     In the former case, they are a real part of the text, and should be printed in the same character: in the latter, they are generally ill-assorted and clumsy ekes, that may well be spared; and which often disfigure the narration […]

From Middle English eke, eake (“an addition”), from Old English ēaca (“an addition, increase, advantage, usury, interest”), from Proto-Germanic *aukô (“an addition, increase”). Akin to Old Frisian āka (“addition, increase, bonus”), Old Norse auki (“increase, growth, proliferation”).

eke (plural ekes)

1. (beekeeping, archaic) A very small addition to the bottom of a beehive, often merely of a few bands of straw, on which the hive is raised temporarily.

From Middle English eek (“also”), from Old English ēac, ēc (“also”), from Proto-Germanic also. Akin to Saterland Frisian uk, ook (“also”), West Frisian ek (“also”), Dutch ook (“also”), German auch (“also”), Swedish ock (“also”).

eke (not comparable)

1. (obsolete) Also.
   • 1663, Hudibras, by Samuel Butler, part 1, canto 1

     'Tis false: for Arthur wore in hall / Round-table like a farthingal, / On which, with shirt pull'd out behind, / And eke before, his good knights dined.

   • 1782, The Diverting History of John Gilpin, by William Cowper

     'John Gilpin was a citizen / of credit and renown / A train-band captain eke was he / of famous London town.'

• eke out

• Eek, Kee, eek, kee

Borrowed from a Chuvash-type Turkic language before the times of the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin (at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries). Compare the Turkish verb form ek.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈɛkɛ]

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• Hyphenation: eke

eke (plural ekék)

1. plough (UK), plow (US)

• ekecsont

eke

1. to embark

eke

1. inflection of eka (“one”):
   1. masculine nominative, accusative, and vocative plural
   2. feminine vocative singular

From Old Swedish, from ek (“oak”).

eke n

1. (uncountable) wood of oak

eke

1. dative singular of ek

eke

1. dative singular of ek

eke

1. if