Pike

See also: pike and pikë

English

Proper noun

Pike

1. of multiple origins, including (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English pike.

Derived terms

• Pike County

Anagrams

• kepi, kipe

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German

Etymology

From Middle High German pieke, from Middle Dutch pike, from Proto-Germanic *pīkaz, *pīkō. Already in Dutch the word was influenced by French pic (“tip”). Another influence is German Picke (“pick, pickaxe”), from picken. The precise relation between all of these words is uncertain.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpiːkə/

Noun

Pike f (genitive Pike, plural Piken)

1. (weaponry) pike
2. (especially soccer) the tip of the foot or shoe

   Synonyms: Picke, Spitze

Derived terms

• von der Pike auf (“from scratch”)

Further reading

• Pike on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de

References

• Template:R:Pfeifer
• Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “piek”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands‎^[1] (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

Further reading

• “Pike” in Duden online