reek – English noun declension

English noun forms of reek

Noun: reek
Singularreek
Pluralreeks

Sample Sentences

  • Thou mightst as well say, I loue to walke by the
  • Counter-gate, which is as hatefull to me, as the reeke of
  • a Lime-kill. [c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):]
  • 1768, Alexander Ross (poet), "Helenore; or, the fortunate Shepherdess": a Poem in the Broad Scoth Dialect
  • Now, by this time, the sun begins to leam,
  • And lit the hill-heads with his morning beam;
  • And birds, and beasts, and folk to be a-steer,
  • And clouds o’ reek frae lum heads to appear.
  • The blue reeks of smoke from the cottages gave the whole widespread landscape an air of settled order and homely comfort. [1913, Arthur Conan Doyle, “(please specify the page)”, in The Poison Belt […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:]

Etymology

1. From Middle English rek, reke (“smoke”), from Old English rēc, from Proto-West Germanic *rauki, from Proto-Germanic *raukiz, from Proto-Indo-European *rowgi-.
2. Cognate with West Frisian reek, riik, Dutch rook (“smoke”), Low German Röök, German Rauch (“smoke”), Danish røg (“smoke”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk røyk (“smoke”), Swedish rök (“smoke”), Faroese roykur (“smoke”), Icelandic reykur (“smoke”); also Lithuanian rū̃kti (“to smoke”), rū̃kas (“smoke, fog”), Albanian regj (“to tan”). See: Middle English Nouns 'rek', Old English Nouns 'rēc', Dutch Nouns 'rook', German Nouns 'Rauch', Danish Nouns 'røg', Swedish Nouns 'rök', Faroese Nouns 'roykur', Icelandic Nouns 'reykur'.

Verbs referencing "reek"

Latin Nouns rumen, German Nouns Rauch, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns røyk.