stikken

• IPA^(key): /ˈstɪ.kə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: stik‧ken
• Rhymes: -ɪkən

From Middle Dutch sticken, from Old Dutch *sticcon, from Proto-West Germanic *stikkōn, from Proto-Germanic *stikkōną.

stikken

1. (intransitive) to choke, suffocate
2. (transitive, archaic) to suffocate, to cause problems with breathing
3. (impersonal) to teem (to have an abundance of) [with van ‘with’]
   • 1973, Vader Abraham, zijn Goede Zonen, “Uche uche”, in Vader Abraham & zijn Goede Zonen:

     Uche uche uche uche uche, / het stikt hier van de muggen.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• Afrikaans: stik
• → Caribbean Javanese: setig
• → Papiamentu: stek, stik

From Middle Dutch sticken, from Old Dutch *sticken, from Proto-West Germanic *stikkjan, from Proto-Germanic *stikjaną.

stikken

2. to stitch

• Afrikaans: stik
• → Papiamentu: stek

stikken

1. shattered

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

• “stikken”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011