Pike
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English
Etymology 1
The surname is of multiple origins, including Middle English pike.
Proper noun
Pike
- A surname from Middle English.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A census-designated place in Sierra County, California.
- An unincorporated community in Boone County, Indiana, first named Pikes Crossing, at the crossing of a turnpike.
- An unincorporated community in Haverhill, Grafton County, New Hampshire.
- A town, hamlet, and census-designated place therein, in Wyoming County, New York.
- An unincorporated community in Collin County, Texas.
- An unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia, named for a turnpike intersection.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Pike Township.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
Pike (plural Pikes)
- (US, slang) A member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity.
Anagrams
German
Etymology
From Middle High German pieke, from Middle Dutch pike, from Old Dutch *pīk, from Proto-West Germanic *pīk. 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
Noun
Pike f (genitive Pike, plural Piken)
Declension
Declension of Pike [feminine]
Derived terms
- von der Pike auf (“from scratch”)
Further reading
Pike on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de
- Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “Pike”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN
- Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “piek”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
- “Pike” in Duden online
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