"Leek" meaning in All languages combined

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Proper name [Dutch]

IPA: /leːk/ Audio: nl-leek.ogg
Rhymes: -eːk Etymology: First attested as dye leeck in 1495. Derived from Old Frisian leke (“natural watercourse”). Originally a hydronym. Etymology templates: {{der|nl|ofs|leke|t=natural watercourse}} Old Frisian leke (“natural watercourse”) Head templates: {{nl-proper noun|n}} Leek n
  1. A village and former municipality of Westerkwartier, Groningen, Netherlands Tags: neuter Categories (place): Historical political subdivisions, Places in Groningen, Netherlands, Places in the Netherlands, Villages in Groningen, Netherlands, Villages in the Netherlands Synonyms: Koetsenburg Derived forms: Leekster, Leekstermeer
    Sense id: en-Leek-nl-name-xZdTxMnX Categories (other): Dutch entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries

Proper name [English]

IPA: /liːk/
Etymology: Perhaps of pre-Anglo-Saxon (non-Old English) origin and instead from Celtic; compare Welsh llech and Irish leac (“stone”), both from Proto-Celtic *ɸlikkā. Recorded as Lec in 1086 (DB). Etymology templates: {{der|en|cel|-}} Celtic, {{cog|cy|llech}} Welsh llech, {{cog|ga|leac|t=stone}} Irish leac (“stone”), {{der|en|cel-pro|*ɸlikkā}} Proto-Celtic *ɸlikkā Head templates: {{en-proper noun}} Leek
  1. A town and civil parish with a town council in Staffordshire Moorlands district, Staffordshire, England (OS grid ref SJ9856). Categories (place): Civil parishes of England, Places in England, Places in Staffordshire, England, Towns in England, Towns in Staffordshire, England
    Sense id: en-Leek-en-name-CEeUqvlj Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 3 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 92 3 5 Disambiguation of Pages with 3 entries: 83 4 13 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 89 2 8
  2. A village and former municipality in Groningen province, Netherlands. Categories (place): Places in Groningen, Netherlands, Places in the Netherlands, Villages in Groningen, Netherlands, Villages in the Netherlands
    Sense id: en-Leek-en-name-5LHpt9HW
  3. A surname.
    Sense id: en-Leek-en-name-EMUC1F3L Categories (other): English surnames

Noun [German Low German]

Etymology: Ultimately cognate to German Laich. Etymology templates: {{cog|de|Laich}} German Laich Head templates: {{head|nds-de|noun|g=m}} Leek m
  1. (Low Prussian) spawn (eggs laid in the water by aquatic organisms) Tags: Low-Prussian, masculine
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-02-21 using wiktextract (7c21d10 and f2e72e5). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.