kaak

See also: kääk, káak', and kʼáakʼ

English

Alternative forms

• ka'k, kaʻk (stricter transliterations)
• ka'ak (nonstandard)

Etymology

From Arabic كعك (“biscuit, cookie”). Likely a distant cognate with cake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɑːk/

Noun

kaak (uncountable)

1. Any of a variety of Middle Eastern biscuits and baked goods, usually sweet.

Bau Bidayuh

Noun

kaak

1. crow (any bird of the genus Corvus)

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kaːk/

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• Hyphenation: kaak
• Rhymes: -aːk

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *kekǭ, *kēkǭ, *kakǭ, *kaukǭ, *keukǭ (“jaw; palate; pharynx”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵyewh₁- (“to chew”).

Cognates

Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sooke (“cheek”), West Frisian tsjeak (“jaw”), English cheek, Swedish käke (“jaw; jowl”), Norwegian kjake (“jaw”), Old Norse kók (“mouth; gullet”).

Noun

kaak m or f (plural kaken, diminutive kaakje n)

1. jaw

   De tandarts onderzocht zijn kaak en constateerde een kleine scheur.

   The dentist examined his jaw and found a small crack.

2. cheek, cone

   Ze at een ijsje en voelde de kou op haar kaakjes.

   She ate an ice cream and felt the cold on her cheeks.

3. gill

   De vis had prachtige rode kaken

   The fish had beautiful red gills.

Derived terms

• bovenkaak
• kaakbeen
• kaakfractuur
• kaakslag
• onderkaak

 

Descendants

• Negerhollands: kaak, kak, kaek
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: kak (dated)

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch kaeck (“scaffold”), of obscure origin with no clues outside of Germanic; the non-Indo-European structure of a potential reconstruction *gVg- (two voiced consonants) may indicate a borrowing from a pre-Indo-European substrate language. German kak is borrowed from Low German.

Noun

kaak m or f (plural kaken, diminutive kaakje n)

2. pillory

Derived terms

• aan de kaak stellen

Etymology 3

Borrowed from English cake. Doublet of cake.

Noun

kaak m or f (plural kaken, diminutive kaakje n)

1. ship biscuit

Usage notes

• The diminutive form kaakje is far more common and has a separate, more specific meaning of a (sweet) biscuit eaten alongside coffee or tea.

Etymology 4

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

kaak

1. inflection of kaken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

References

• M. J. Koenen & J. Endepols, Verklarend Handwoordenboek der Nederlandse Taal (tevens Vreemde-woordentolk), Groningen, Wolters-Noordhoff, 1969 (26th edition) [Dutch dictionary in Dutch]

Greenlandic

Etymology

From Proto-Eskimo *kaɣǝ-. Cognate with Inupiaq kauk (“walrus skin for food”).

Pronunciation

• (Nuuk) IPA^(key): /kaak/, [kəːk]

Noun

kaak (plural kaat)

1. walrus skin

Declension

Declension of kaak

	singular	plural
absolutive	kaak	kaaat
ergative	kaaap	kaaat
allative	kaammut	kaannut
ablative	kaammit	kaannit
prosecutive	kaakkut	kaatsigut
locative	kaammi	kaanni
instrumental	kaammik	kaannik
equative	kaattut	kaattut