Pik

See also: pik

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /piːk/

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Etymology 1

Borrowed from French pique.

Alternative forms

• Pique

Noun

Pik n (genitive Piks, plural Piks) (but hardly likely in the plural)

1. (card games) spades

   Synonym: Schippe

Descendants

• → Macedonian: пик (pik)
• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: пи̏к

  Latin script: pȉk

• → Slovene: pík

Etymology 2

From German Low German Pik, as with German einen Pik auf jemanden haben used in the phrase enen Pik up jemand hebben, and that borrowed from French pique in être en pique avec quelqu’un. This phrase is hardly known in German, though occasionally popping up in literature. Better known is the adjective pikiert, and the phrase is more frequent in Serbo-Croatian though dated in German and French.

Alternative forms

• Pick

Noun

Pik m (genitive Piks or Pikes, plural Pike) (but hardly likely in the plural)

1. (dated) shrewdness, scoff, wont to be mean

   Ich sehe, Sie haben einen Pik auf mich! ― I see, you disdain me!

Descendants

• → Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic script: пи̏к

  Latin script: pȉk

Etymology 3

From piken (“to prick, to sting, to pinch”), also piksen. Or also back-formed from Piks because of the unwonted sound sequence.

Alternative forms

• Piks
• Piek (considered a misspelling)

Noun

Pik m (genitive Piks or Pikes, plural Pike) (hardly likely in the plural; also used as an interjection)

1. (colloquial) pinch, sting, pricking

   Nur ein kleiner Pik und du bist vor mehreren Krankheiten geschützt! ― Only a small sting and you are protected from multiple diseases!

Descendants

• → Russian: пик (pik) (Germany)
• → Serbo-Croatian: (interjection)

  Cyrillic script: пи̏к

  Latin script: pȉk

• → Slovene: pìk (interjection)

References

• “Pik” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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Polish

Pronunciation

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Proper noun

Pik m pers or f

1. a masculine surname
2. a feminine surname

Declension

Masculine surname:

Declension of Pik

	singular	plural
nominative	Pik	Pikowie
genitive	Pika	Pików
dative	Pikowi	Pikom
accusative	Pika	Pików
instrumental	Pikiem	Pikami
locative	Piku	Pikach
vocative	Piku	Pikowie

The feminine surname is indeclinable.