Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap. · The highest value reached by some quantity in a time period. · The top, or one of the tops, of a hill, mountain, or range, ending in a point. · The whole hill or mountain, especially when isolated.
From earlier peake, peek, peke, from Middle English pek (in place names), itself an alteration of pike, pyke, pyk (“a sharp point, pike”), from Old English pīc, piic (“a pike, needle, pin, peak, pinnacle”), from Proto-West Germanic *pīk, from Proto-Germanic *pīkaz (“peak”). Cognate with Dutch piek (“pike, point, summit, peak”), Danish pik (“pike, peak”), Swedish pik (“pike, lance, point, peak”), Norwegian pik (“peak, summit”). More at pike.
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