kiik

See also: Kiik and kʼiʼikʼ

Estonian
Kiik

Etymology

Probably a deverbal from kiikuma (“to swing”), from Proto-Finnic *kiikkudak. Cognate with Finnish kiikku.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkiːk/

Noun

kiik (genitive kiige, partitive kiike)

  1. swing; seesaw
    1. A device used for swinging, consisting of thills or ropes hanging from a spindle attached to poles and a board or boards attached between them.
      Kiik on vahend, millel meelelahutuse või mängimise eesmärgil kiigutakse.
      A swing is a device, on which people swing in order to play or entertain themselves.
    2. A log or a board placed on a fulcrum, on which people sit on the ends.
      Kiige ühes otsas istus ema, teises poeg.
      The mother sat on one end of the seesaw, the son at the other.

Declension
Declension of kiik (ÕS type 22i/külm, k-g gradation)
singular plural
nominative kiik kiiged
genitive kiige kiikede
partitive kiike kiiki
kiikesid
illative kiike
kiigesse		 kiikedesse
kiigisse
inessive kiiges kiikedes
kiigis
elative kiigest kiikedest
kiigist
allative kiigele kiikedele
kiigile
adessive kiigel kiikedel
kiigil
ablative kiigelt kiikedelt
kiigilt
translative kiigeks kiikedeks
kiigiks
terminative kiigeni kiikedeni
essive kiigena kiikedena
abessive kiigeta kiikedeta
comitative kiigega kiikedega
Notes

    1) The long illative singular form with -sse is rarely used for this declension type.

Yucatec Maya

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /kìːk/

Noun

kiik (plural kiikoʼob)

  1. older sister
    Coordinate terms: sukuʼun, íitsʼin
    • 2011, Marga Beatriz Aguilar Montejo, “U x-waáyilo’ob X-Letra”, in T’aan: Narrativa, Poesía y Dramaturgia, Secretaría de Educación del Estado de Yucatán, page 88:
      Beey xan teech, in yaabilmech, in kiikech.
      I also love you, you are my sister.
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