dalk

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noun

A pin; brooch; clasp.

OriginMiddle English dalke ← Old English dalc ← Proto-Germanic *dalkaz →
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Meanings

dalk1

noundalk (plural dalks)

plural dalks

  1. A pin; brooch; clasp.

dalk2

noundalk (plural dalks)

plural dalks · alternative delk

  1. archaicA hollow or depression.

    On a sunny September morning, with the trees still green, but the asters and fleabanes already taking over in ditch and dalk, Van set out for Ladoga, N.A.

    1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 120

DALK3

nounDALK (countable and uncountable, plural DALKs)

plural DALKs

  1. abbreviationcountableinitialismuncountablemedicineInitialism of deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty.

Origin

dalk · noun

  1. Proto-Indo-European*dʰelg-“to stick; needle, pin”
  2. Proto-Germanic*dalkaz“clasp, pin”
  3. Old Englishdalc“clasp, buckle, brooch, bracelet”
  4. Middle Englishdalke
  5. Englishdalk

From Middle English dalke, dalk, from Old English dalc (“clasp, buckle, brooch, bracelet”), from Proto-Germanic *dalkaz (“clasp, pin”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰelg- (“to stick; needle, pin”). Cognate with Icelandic dálkur (“cloak-pin”), Latin falx (“scythe”). Doublet of falx.

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dalk · noun

  1. Proto-Germanic*dalukaz
  2. Old English*daluc
  3. Middle Englishdalke
  4. Englishdalk

From Middle English dalke; perhaps a diminutive of dale, dell. In that case from Old English *daluc, from Proto-Germanic *dalukaz.

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