Ik

See also: Appendix:Variations of "ik"

English

Etymology

From Ik Icé-tód.

Proper noun

Ik (usually uncountable, plural Ik)

1. An ethnic group in northeastern Uganda near the border with Kenya.
2. (uncountable) The language spoken by the Ik ethnic group.

Translations

Translations

• French: Ik (fr) m

Anagrams

• -ki-, KI, Ki, Ki., kI, ki

French

Etymology

From Ik Icé-tód.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ik/

Proper noun

Ik m

1. Ik (ethnic group)

Scots

Alternative forms

• Ic

Etymology

From Middle English ik, from Old English ic (“I”, pronoun), from Proto-West Germanic *ik (“I”, pronoun).

Pronoun

Ik

1. I

   Wha did that? Ik!

   Who did that? I did!

   • 1375, John Barbour, The Brus:

     For Ik am he, I say the soithly, [...]

     For I am he, I tell you truthfully, […]

See also

Scots personal pronouns

personal pronoun possessive pronoun possessive determiner subjective objective reflexive first person singular A, I, Ik me mysel mine, mines mine, my plural we us, we oorsel, oorsels oors our second person singular standard (formal) ye you, yow ye you, yow yersel yoursel yers yours yer your Insular (informal) thoo thee thysel, theesel thines thy, thee, thees plural ye, yese you, youse ye, yese you, youse theer yesels yoursels yers yours yer your third person singular masculine he, e him, im himsel, hissel his, is his, is feminine scho, she, shu her, er hersel hers her, er neuter it hit it hit itsel hitsel its hits its hits genderless, nonspecific (formal) ane ane – – ane's plural thay thaim thaimsel, thaimsels thairs thair

References

• “Ik, pron.”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, retrieved 21 May 2024, reproduced from William A[lexander] Craigie, A[dam] J[ack] Aitken [et al.], editors, A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue: […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1931–2002, →OCLC.