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siker

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See also: sikér

English

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Pronunciation

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Adjective

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siker

  1. Alternative spelling of sicker (certain)
  2. Alternative spelling of sicker (secure)
    • 1847 (publication date), James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Dictionary of Archaisms and Provincialisms from the Fourteenth Century Vol. II., pages 741 and 743:
      "That schip had a ful siker mast,
      And a sayl strong and large."

Derived terms

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Adverb

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siker

  1. Alternative spelling of sicker (certainly)
  2. Alternative spelling of sicker (securely)

Anagrams

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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Back-formation from sikeres, which originally meant "having high gluten content" (of wheat), but today normally means "successful". The back-formation was done by splitting the adjectival suffix -es.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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siker (plural sikerek)

  1. success

Declension

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Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative siker sikerek
accusative sikert sikereket
dative sikernek sikereknek
instrumental sikerrel sikerekkel
causal-final sikerért sikerekért
translative sikerré sikerekké
terminative sikerig sikerekig
essive-formal sikerként sikerekként
essive-modal
inessive sikerben sikerekben
superessive sikeren sikereken
adessive sikernél sikereknél
illative sikerbe sikerekbe
sublative sikerre sikerekre
allative sikerhez sikerekhez
elative sikerből sikerekből
delative sikerről sikerekről
ablative sikertől sikerektől
non-attributive
possessive - singular
sikeré sikereké
non-attributive
possessive - plural
sikeréi sikerekéi
Possessive forms of siker
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. sikerem sikereim
2nd person sing. sikered sikereid
3rd person sing. sikere sikerei
1st person plural sikerünk sikereink
2nd person plural sikeretek sikereitek
3rd person plural sikerük sikereik

Derived terms

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Compound words
Expressions

Further reading

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  • siker 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

Maltese

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Root
s-k-r
3 terms

Etymology

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From Arabic سَكَرَ (sakara).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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siker (imperfect jisker)

  1. to get drunk
    • 2008, Trevor Żahra, Il-Ġenn li Jżommni f’Sikti, Merlin Publishers, →ISBN:
      Jien, li fl-imħabba kelli biss sensiela twila ta’ diżappunti; jien li kont bdejt nemmen li qatt mhu se nsib lil min iħobbni, issa kont ħassejt li f’salt wieħed seħħ miraklu. Kont skirt bl-imħabba.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
  2. to be overwatered (trees)

Conjugation

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Conjugation of siker
singular plural
1st person 2nd person 3rd person 1st person 2nd person 3rd person
perfect m skirt skirt siker skirna skirtu sikru
f sikret
imperfect m nisker tisker jisker niskru tiskru jiskru
f tisker
imperative isker iskru

Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Old English sicor, from Proto-West Germanic *sikur, from Latin sēcūrus. Doublet of sure.

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Adjective

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siker (plural and weak singular sikere, comparative sikerer, superlative sikerest)

  1. safe, secure (not harmful or dangerous):
    1. sinless, not spiritually dangerous
    2. fortified, secure, guarded
  2. reliable, long-lasting, of good quality:
    1. reliable, dependable, trustworthy, useful
    2. unerring, unfailing, continuous
    3. Easily predictable, inevitable, certain
  3. firm, tough, unbreakable, sound
  4. actual, real, true not feigned or ephemeral
  5. certain, sure, assured
  6. cured, healed, health

Descendants

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  • English: sicker (obsolete, dialectal)
  • Scots: sicker, siccar
  • Welsh: sicr

References

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Adverb

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siker (comparative sikerer)

  1. safely, carefully
  2. certainly, surely, inevitably
  3. assuredly, with sureness
  4. powerfully

Descendants

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References

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Norwegian Bokmål

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Noun

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siker

  1. indefinite plural of sik
  2. indefinite plural of sik

Verb

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siker

  1. present tense of sike

Norwegian Nynorsk

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Noun

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siker f

  1. indefinite plural of sik

Verb

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siker

  1. present of sika

Turkish

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Verb

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siker

  1. third-person singular indicative aorist of sikmek