Siek

The story

1. Proto-West Germanic · derived from*sīk“watercourse”
2. Old Saxon · derived from*sīk
3. Middle Low German · derived fromsīk“swampy valley”
4. English todaySiek

* As a Polish surname, from a derivative of siekać (“to chop up, hack”). * As a North/Low German surname, from Middle Low German sīk (“swampy valley”), from Old Saxon *sīk, from Proto-West Germanic *sīk (“watercourse”).

Words from the same roots