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sīks

Pronunciation: [sîːks]

“sīks” is a Latvian word. Its 12 meanings in English:

adjective

  1. tiny, little, small (having very small size)
  2. thin, delicate
  3. of small value
  4. very small, very thin
  5. fine, thin (composed of tiny parts, almost homogeneous)
  6. weak, difficult to perceive, detect
  7. weak (having low intensity, little effect)
  8. relatively quiet, short, and high-pitched
  9. humble, small, insignificant (who owns little; who has an unimportant work, an unimportant position in society)
  10. small (without significant consequencess; unimportant, insignificant, irrelevant)
  11. small, petty, selfish, narrow-minded
  12. detailed (including or reflecting all facts, information)

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *sink-, from Proto-Indo-European *senk-, *sn̥k-, from *sek- (“to drain, to dry up”) with an extra infix -n-. The original meaning was probably “thin water layer, spray, drops,” whence “small, tiny.” Cognates include Lithuanian sìnkus, dialectal sinkùs (“fine, thin (flour)”).

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