dek

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Deliberate misspelling of deck, to distinguish the word as not belonging in the story.

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dek (plural deks)

1. (journalism, slang) The subhead of a news story.

From decimal.

dek

1. The cardinal number occurring after nine and before el in a duodecimal system. Written ↊, decimal value 10.

• roneat dek

• EDK, KDE, KED, ked

dek

1. ergative indefinite of de

From Proto-Brythonic *deg, from Proto-Celtic *dekam, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥.

dek

1. ten

• (cardinal number): Previous: nav. Next: unnek

• IPA^(key): /dɛk/

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• Hyphenation: dek
• Rhymes: -ɛk

From Middle Dutch dec, from decken, from Old Dutch thecken, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjaną. Equivalent to a deverbal from dekken.

dek n (plural dekken, diminutive dekje n)

1. A deck.
2. A cover.
3. A surface.

• achterdek
• benedendek
• campagnedek
• dekknecht
• halfdek
• hoofddek
• lidodek
• onderdek
• scheepsdek
• sneeuwdek
• vliegdek
• voordek
• wegdek
• zadeldek
• zonnedek

• deken
• dekken

• → Indonesian: dek (“deck”)
• → Papiamentu: dèk

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

dek

1. first-person singular present indicative of dekken
2. imperative of dekken

From Ancient Greek δέκα (déka), Latin decem.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdek/

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dek

1. ten (10)

• deko

From Esperanto dek, from Latin decem, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥.

dek

1. ten (10)

• IPA^(key): [ˈdɛk]
• Hyphenation: dèk

From Dutch dek (“deck”), from Middle Dutch dec (“roof, covering”), from Middle Dutch dekken, from Old Dutch thecken, from Proto-Germanic *þakjaną.

dèk (first-person possessive dekku, second-person possessive dekmu, third-person possessive deknya)

1. deck, any raised flat surface that can be walked on.

From Minangkabau [Term?].

dèk

1. (dialect) because of

• “dek” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

dek

1. water

• The Shiwilu classifier system

Borrowed from Burmese တိုက် (tuik).

dek

1. depository

• Kurabe, Keita (2016-12-31), “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research‎, volume 35, DOI:10.14989/219015, ISSN 1349-7804, pages 91–128

Borrowed from German Deck, from Dutch dek, from Middle Dutch dec, from decken, from Old Dutch thecken, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjaną.

• IPA^(key): /dɛk/

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• Rhymes: -ɛk
• Syllabification: dek

dek m inan

1. (nautical) deck (on a ship)

   Synonym: pokład

• dek in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• dek in Polish dictionaries at PWN