spæk
Danish
/spɛk/
noun
Definitions
- blubber of a whale or a seal
- fat of a pig
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Low German spek derived from Proto-Germanic *spiką (bacon).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*spiką
Gloss
bacon
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- flyspeck English
- speck English
- specked English
- speckless English
- specklike English
- specky English
- Bauchspeck German
- Kummerspeck German
- Paprikaspeck German
- Speck German
- speckig German
- speck Italian
- spekk Norwegian Bokmål
- *spiką Proto-Germanic
- späck Swedish
- späckhuggare Swedish
- szpik Polish
- spekk Norwegian Nynorsk
- spekke Middle English
- spik Old Norse
- -er Danish
- hugge Danish
- høker Danish
- spækhugger Danish
- spækhøker Danish
- spække Danish
- spek Old High German
- spec Middle High German
- pekk Estonian
- spek Old Dutch
- specken Middle Low German
- spek Middle Low German
- spekhȫker Middle Low German