kwik
See also: Kwik
English
Adjective
kwik (comparative kwikker, superlative kwikkest)
- Eye dialect spelling of quick.
Usage notes
- Phonemic spelling, generally used in commercial names, like Kwik Meal.
Derived terms
Afrikaans
| Chemical element | |
|---|---|
| Hg | |
| Previous: goud (Au) | |
| Next: tallium (Tl) | |
Etymology
From Dutch kwik, short for kwikzilver.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kvək/
Audio: (file)
Noun
kwik (uncountable)
Dutch
| Chemical element | |
|---|---|
| Hg | |
| Previous: goud (Au) | |
| Next: thallium (Tl) | |
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kʋɪk/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: kwik
- Rhymes: -ɪk
Etymology 1
From kwikzilver.
Noun
kwik n (uncountable)
- the element mercury
- (metonymous) the temperature
- Het kwik is vannacht tot onder nul gedaald.
- The mercury has dropped to below zero (degrees) tonight.
Synonyms
Derived terms
- kwikthermometer
Related terms
Descendants
- Afrikaans: kwik
- → Caribbean Javanese: kuwig
- → Papiamentu: kuek, kwik
- → Sranan Tongo: kwek
- → West Frisian: kwik
Etymology 2
From Middle Dutch quic, from Old Dutch quic, from Proto-West Germanic *kwiku, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz. Compare English quick.
Adjective
kwik (comparative kwikker, superlative kwikst)
- alternative form of kwiek
Declension
| Declension of kwik | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | kwik | |||
| inflected | kwikke | |||
| comparative | kwikker | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | kwik | kwikker | het kwikst het kwikste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | kwikke | kwikkere | kwikste |
| n. sing. | kwik | kwikker | kwikste | |
| plural | kwikke | kwikkere | kwikste | |
| definite | kwikke | kwikkere | kwikste | |
| partitive | kwiks | kwikkers | — | |
Limburgish
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈkwɪ˦ɡ]
Noun
kwik n
Inflection
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Polish
Etymology
Deverbal from kwiczeć.
Pronunciation
Audio: (file) - Rhymes: -ik
- Syllabification: kwik
- Homophone: Kwik
Interjection
kwik
Noun
kwik m inan
- oink, squeak (high-pitched sound made by pigs, boars, horses, or other animals)
- squeak (high-pitched sound made by a person that the speaker does not like)
Declension
Declension of kwik
| singular | |
|---|---|
| nominative | kwik |
| genitive | kwika |
| dative | kwikowi |
| accusative | kwik |
| instrumental | kwikiem |
| locative | kwiku |
| vocative | kwiku |
Derived terms
adverbs
nouns
Related terms
nouns
Noun
kwik m animal
- (Przemyśl, Podegrodzie) synonym of świnia
- (Podegrodzie) oinker (one who oinks, especially a child)
Further reading
- kwik I in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- kwik II in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- kwik in Polish dictionaries at PWN
- Aleksander Saloni (1908) “kwik”, in “Lud rzeszowski”, in Materyały Antropologiczno-Archeologiczne i Etnograficzne (in Polish), volume 10, Kraków: Akademia Umiejętności, page 336
- Karol Mátyás (1891) “kwik”, in “Słowniczek gwary ludu zamieszkującego wschodnio-południową najbliższą okolicę Nowego Sącza”, in Sprawozdania Komisyi Językowej Akademii Umiejętności (in Polish), volume 4, Kraków: Drukarnia Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, page 324
Saterland Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian quik, from Proto-West Germanic *kwiku, from Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz (“living; active”). More at quick.
Adjective
kwik
Tok Pisin
Etymology
Adjective
kwik