kolk

See also: Kolk and колк

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Dutch kolk.

Noun

kolk (plural kolks)

1. (geology) An underwater vortex similar to a whirlwind, capable of dislodging, picking up, and moving boulders.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Low German Kolk, possibly via German Kolk. Cognate with Dutch kolk.

Noun

kolk (plural kolks)

1. A relatively small water-filled depression, especially in a bog: a bog pond, a bog eye, a bog kolk.
   • 1988 July 29, Heinz Ellenberg, Vegetation Ecology of Central Europe, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 341:

     […] bogs, but only around pools or kolks. The small-scale mosaic of hummocks and hollows so characteristic of the true raised bog is nowhere to be found on a wooded bog. The quaking bog community on the kolk edge, similar to that […]

   • 1998, R. S. Ambasht, Modern Trends in Ecology and Environment:

     […] bog hollows and kolks.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔlk/

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• Hyphenation: kolk
• Rhymes: -ɔlk

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch colc, from Old Dutch *kolk, from Proto-West Germanic *kolk (“hollow, pit, gully”), from Proto-Germanic *kulukaz, an extension of *kelǭ (“throat”).

Noun

kolk f or m (plural kolken, diminutive kolkje n)

1. vortex, maelstrom

   Synonym: draaikolk

2. a drain that is part a sewer system

   Synonym: put

3. a small waterway connected to one or several windmills that control the water level in a polder, serving as a conduit to remove surplus water

   Synonyms: boezemsloot, kolksloot, molenkolk

4. a dyke beside such a waterway

   Synonyms: kolkdijk, molenkolk

5. a stagnant pool or lake resulting from the vortex of e.g. a breached dyke
6. the body of water between sluice gates

   Synonym: sluiskolk

7. a dug watering hole

Hypernyms

• (drain of a sewer system): put
• (small waterway connected to windmills in a polder): sloot

Derived terms

• draaikolk
• kolkdijk
• kolksloot
• molenkolk
• rioolkolk
• sluiskolk
• straatkolk

Descendants

• → Afrikaans: kolk

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

kolk

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