# tik
## Translingual
### Symbol

tik
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Tikar.

### See also

* Wiktionary’s coverage of Tikar terms

## English
### Etymology

Early 21st century, perhaps imitative of the popping sounds made by meth being lit and smoked.

### Noun

tik (uncountable)
* (South Africa, slang) crystal meth or speed.
** 2004 June 8, “On the Tik-Tik express”, in SABC News‎, archived from the original on 2 June 2006:This Tuesday Special Assignment focuses on a deepening crisis in Cape Town. Many young adults and schoolchildren as young as 10 years are in the grip of a powerful drug called crystal methamphetamine – known locally as tik. It’s been on the fringes for several years but it is now catching on fast among the youth of the Western Cape.
** 2006 May 13, Weekend Argus, page 12:Over a third of all people seeking rehabilitation in the second half of 2005 reported that their primary problem was tik.
** 2020 October 10, Mike Simpson, “More seizures of drug consignments on long-distance buses”, in The South African‎:Hardly a week goes by without news of a crime bust of some kind involving one of the buses travelling cross-country, with everything from mandrax to tik, marijuana and abalone finding its way on board.

### References

* ↑ “tik”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Anagrams

* ITK, KIT, Kit, ikt, kit

## Afrikaans
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tək/

### Etymology 1

From Dutch tikken.

#### Verb

tik (present tik, present participle tikkende, past participle getik)
* (transitive, intransitive) to tap
* (transitive) to type
* (Cape Afrikaans, intransitive) to use crystal meth
    Synonym: tjoef

### Etymology 2

From Dutch tik.

#### Noun

tik (plural tikke)
* tap
* (Cape Afrikaans, uncountable) crystal meth
    Synonym: tjoef

##### Derived terms

* tikkop
* tiklollie

## Choctaw
### Noun

tīk (inalienable)
* female
* sister (of a man)

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtɪk]

### Noun

tik m inan
* a tick, a twitch

#### Declension
## Dinka
### Noun

tik (plural diäär or dior)
* woman
* wife

### References

* Dinka-English Dictionary‎, 2005

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tɪk/
* Audio:(file)
* Hyphenation: tik
* Rhymes: -ɪk

### Etymology 1

From tikken.

#### Noun

tik m (plural tikken, diminutive tikje n)
* tick (a kind of sound)
* tap
* slap
* little bit (In: "een tikje meer")

##### Derived terms

* schoudertik

##### Descendants

* Afrikaans: tik
* → Papiamentu: tiki (from the diminutive)
* Indonesian: tik

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

tik
* inflection of tikken:
** first-person singular present indicative
** (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
** imperative

### Anagrams

* kit

## Garo
### Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Noun

tik
* louse

## Hausa
### Alternative forms

* bîf, tîm

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tîk/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [tɪ̂k]

### Ideophone

tîk
* something heavy falling

## Hungarian
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈtik]
* Hyphenation: tik
* Rhymes: -ik

### Etymology 1
#### Noun

tik (plural tikok)
* (dialectal) Alternative form of tyúk (“hen”).

##### Declension
### Etymology 2
#### Pronoun

tik
* (personal, folksy) Alternative form of ti (“you, plural”).

##### Declension
### Further reading

* (folksy alternative form of tyúk (“hen”)): tik , redirecting to tyúk in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
* (folksy alternative form of ti (“you all”)): tik , redirecting to (1): ti in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

## Indonesian
### Alternative forms

* ketik (nonstandard)

### Etymology

From Dutch tik, tikken.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈt̪ɪk̚]
* Hyphenation: tik

### Noun

tik (plural tik-tik)
* typewriter (a device, at least partially mechanical, used to print text by pressing keys that cause type to be impressed through an inked ribbon onto paper)

#### Derived terms

* ketikan
* mengetik
* mesin tik
* pengetik
* pengetikan
* tikan

### Further reading

* “tik” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

## Latvian
### Adverb

tik
* so
    tik daudz ― so many

### Particle

tik
* not so... as

## Lithuanian
### Etymology 1

Traditionally considered a shortening of ti̇́ek (“so much”) or tiektai̇̃ (“not only”), though the phonological processes involved are unclear.
* This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “What is tiek's further etymology? Smoczynski doesn't trace it back to Proto-Indo-European; looks a bit like a combination of Proto-Balto-Slavic *tas (“that”) + *ki (“what”), or perhaps it's derived from some other grammatical-type words.”

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: [tʲɪk]

#### Adverb

tik (not comparable)
* just, only (nothing more than; nothing else other than)
    Synonyms: vien, tiktai
    Kàs bùs toliaũ, gãlima ti̇̀k spėlióti. ― We can only speculate as to what will come next.
    Ji̇̀s ti̇̀k bė̃go ir̃ bė̃go. ― He just ran and ran.
* only just, barely, hardly
    Synonyms: bemaž, vos
    Rãdo jį̇̃ tik gývą, tik nenùmirė. ― We found him barely alive, he almost died.

#### Conjunction

tik
* but, yet, just (introduces a concession)
    Synonyms: bet, tačiau
    Labai̇̃ nóriu, ti̇̀k pinigų̃ neturiù. ― I'd love to, just I don't have the money.

#### Particle

tik
* (in conjunction with question words) -ever, no matter …
    Synonyms: bebūtų, bet
    Kõ ti̇̀k i̇̀masi, tàs sẽkasi. ― He succeeds at whatever he puts his hand to.

#### Derived terms

* ką tik
* tik tik
* tiktai

### Etymology 2

Of imitative origin.

#### Interjection

ti̇̀k
* Noise made to call chickens
    Synonym: cik
* tick (sound of a clock ticking)

### Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Verb

ti̇̀k
* second-person singular imperative of tikti

### References

* ↑ Wojciech Smoczyński (2018) “tik”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, →DOI, →ISBN, page 676

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse tík.
* This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with the IPA then please add some!

### Noun

tik f or m (definite singular tika or tiken, indefinite plural tiker, definite plural tikene)
* a female canine
* a ewe

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Etymology

From Old Norse tík.

### Noun

tik f (definite singular tika, indefinite plural tiker, definite plural tikene)
* a female canine
* a ewe

## Pipil
### Preposition

tik
* in, to, from, inside, into

### Further reading

* Campbell, L. (1985). The Pipil Language of El Salvador. Mouton De Gruyter. p. 59

## Polish
### Etymology

Borrowed from French tic.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈtik/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ik
* Syllabification: tik

### Noun

tik m inan
* (medicine) tic (local and habitual convulsive motion)

#### Derived terms

* tikowy

### Further reading

* tik in Polish dictionaries at PWN

## Sudovian
### Etymology

From Proto-Baltic [Term?]. Compare Lithuanian ti̇̀k, Latvian tik, however Old Prussian ter (“only”).
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Particle

tik
* only, just
** “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 21, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):tylko — tiktylko — only

### References

* ↑ Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, →DOI, page 80: “tik ‘tik, tiktai, l. tylko’ 21.”
* ↑ “tìk” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–): “nar. tik part. ‘nur’”.

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Norse tík (“bitch”). Compare English tyke.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tiːk/
* Rhymes: -iːk

### Noun

tik c
* a bitch (female canine)
    Synonym: hynda

#### Declension
## Tatar
### Adjective

tik
* only, solitary

## Turkish
### Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish تیك (tik), from French tic.

#### Noun

tik (definite accusative tiği, plural tikler)
* tic (movement)
* tic (mannerism)

### Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish تیك (tik), from English teak.

#### Noun

tik (definite accusative tiği, plural tikler)
* teak [from 19th c.]

### Etymology 3

From English tick.

#### Noun

tik (definite accusative tiği, plural tikler)
* tick (check mark) [from 2002]
** 2023 May 4, “Kılıçdaroğlu'na 'gri tik' verildi”, in Cumhuriyet:Millet İttifakı’nın Cumhurbaşkanı adayı Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu'nun Twitter hesabına "gri tik" verildi.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

### Further reading

* Avery, Robert et al., editors (2013), “tik”, in The Redhouse Dictionary Turkish/Ottoman English, 21st edition, Istanbul: Sev Yayıncılık, →ISBN
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tik1”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tik2”, in Nişanyan Sözlük
* Nişanyan, Sevan (2002–) “tik3”, in Nişanyan Sözlük

## Veps
### Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *tikka. Cognates include Finnish tikka.

### Noun

tik
* woodpecker

#### Declension
## Volapük
### Etymology

Borrowed from English think.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tik/

### Noun

tik (nominative plural tiks)
* thought (object or instance of thinking)

#### Declension

$^1$ status as a case is disputed $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only

#### Derived terms

* tikäl
* tikön