Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails. · To set or furnish with spikes. · To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people. · To fix on a spike.
A sort of very large nail. · A piece of pointed metal etc. set with points upward or outward. · Anything resembling such a nail in shape. · An ear of corn or grain.
From Middle English spike, spyke, spik, from Old Norse spík (“spike, sprig”), from Proto-Germanic *spīkō (“stick, splinter, point”), from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“to be pointed; sharp point, stick”). Cognate with Icelandic spík (“spike”), Swedish spik (“spike, nail”), Dutch spijker (“nail”), Old English spīcing (“spike”), and Latin spīca (“ear of corn”), which may have influenced some senses.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*spey-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionspikeenm
- Derivation mentionspíknon · spike, sprig
- Derivation mention*spīkōgem-pro · stick, splinter, point
- Derivation mention*spey-ine-pro · to be pointed; sharp point, stick
- Cognate mentionspíkis · spike
- Cognate mentionspiksv · spike, nail
- Cognate mentionspijkernl · nail
- Cognate mentionspīcingang · spike
- Cognate mentionspīcala · ear of corn
This page abbreviates 24 auxiliary source items. The etymology narrative is not shortened. Omission counts are available in the audit fields below; consult the original for complete auxiliary material.
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
{
"templates": [
{
"name": "root",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*spey-"
},
"expansion": ""
},
{
"name": "inh",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "spike"
},
"expansion": "Middle English spike"
},
{
"name": "der",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "non",
"3": "spík",
"t": "spike, sprig"
},
"expansion": "Old Norse spík (“spike, sprig”)"
},
{
"name": "der",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*spīkō",
"t": "stick, splinter, point"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *spīkō (“stick, splinter, point”)"
},
{
"name": "der",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*spey-",
"t": "to be pointed; sharp point, stick"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“to be pointed; sharp point, stick”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "spík",
"t": "spike"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic spík (“spike”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "spik",
"t": "spike, nail"
},
"expansion": "Swedish spik (“spike, nail”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "spijker",
"t": "nail"
},
"expansion": "Dutch spijker (“nail”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "spīcing",
"t": "spike"
},
"expansion": "Old English spīcing (“spike”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "la",
"2": "spīca",
"t": "ear of corn"
},
"expansion": "Latin spīca (“ear of corn”)"
}
],
"links": [
[
"spike",
"spike#Middle_English"
],
[
"spyke",
"spyke#Middle_English"
],
[
"spik",
"spik#Middle_English"
],
[
"spík",
"spík#Old_Norse"
],
[
"*spīkō",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/spīkō"
],
[
"*spey-",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/spey-"
],
[
"spík",
"spík#Icelandic"
],
[
"spik",
"spik#Swedish"
],
[
"spijker",
"spijker#Dutch"
],
[
"spīcing",
"spicing#Old_English"
],
[
"spīca",
"spica#Latin"
]
],
"references": [],
"descendants": [],
"lexical": [
{
"pos": "verb",
"glosses": [
"To fasten with spikes, or long, large nails.",
"To set or furnish with spikes.",
"To embed nails into (a tree) so that any attempt to cut it down will damage equipment or injure people.",
"To fix on a spike."
],
"tags": [],
"recordId": "6a2f0eec712b1fc8eee5c0b4e196ab1ed62ff0535b1ffdcc3edd4bdf8360fbd9",
"rawRecordSha256": "6c87c176d91c1b0045785bba7c0c01f637454b87904382351a312a30e144b74d",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 239780
},
{
"pos": "noun",
"glosses": [
"A sort of very large nail.",
"A piece of pointed metal etc. set with points upward or outward.",
"Anything resembling such a nail in shape.",
"An ear of corn or grain."
],
"tags": [
"broadly"
],
"recordId": "b23deee4f8b36324b69e59597bd947860c1922fe7aa9a5c858dbbc6f821a4837",
"rawRecordSha256": "f1236f46c07963116ea980d193604a37dbece5e19b2d097d246362a07f21db36",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 239779
}
],
"omittedAuxiliaryFields": {
"templates": 0,
"links": 0,
"references": 0,
"descendants": 0,
"lexicalRecords": 0,
"lexicalSenses": 24,
"glosses": 0
}
}