English Explanatory Dictionary

steck

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A piece or an item.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/stɛk/

Word forms

steck stecks stek steik stike steek steak steyk styk staig

Etymology

From Middle English stic, from Middle Dutch stucke, sticke, from Old Dutch *stukki, *stikki, from Proto-West Germanic *stukkī, from Proto-Germanic *stukkiją (“piece”). Cognate with Danish stykke (“piece”), Dutch stuk (“piece”), Faroese stykki (“piece”), German Stück (“piece”), Icelandic stykki (“piece”), Norwegian stykke (“piece”), Swedish stycke (“piece”). Doublet of shtick and shtuka. See also stock.

Synonyms

hunk portion bit chip chunk clip crumb crumbling cutting flake fleak fragment lump mammock ort piece piecemeal scrap scraplet slice snead snippet steck
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