Pike

== English == === Etymology 1 === The surname is of multiple origins, including Middle English pike. ==== Proper noun ==== Pike A surname from Middle English. A number of places in the United States: A census-designated place in Sierra County, California. An unincorporated community in Boone County, Indiana, first named Pikes Crossing, at the crossing of a turnpike. An unincorporated community in Haverhill, Grafton County, New Hampshire. A town, hamlet, and census-designated place therein, in Wyoming County, New York. An unincorporated community in Collin County, Texas. An unincorporated community in Ritchie County, West Virginia, named for a turnpike intersection. A number of townships in the United States, listed under Pike Township. ===== Derived terms ===== Pike County Pikes Peak === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== Pike (plural Pikes) (US, slang) A member of the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. === Anagrams === kipe, kepi, képi == German == === Etymology === From Middle High German pieke, from Middle Dutch pike, from Old Dutch *pīk, from Proto-West Germanic *pīk. Already in Dutch the word was influenced by French pic (“tip”). Another influence is German Picke (“pick, pickaxe”), from picken. The precise relation between all of these words is uncertain. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈpiːkə/ === Noun === Pike f (genitive Pike, plural Piken) (weaponry) pike (especially soccer) the tip of the foot or shoe Synonyms: Picke, Spitze ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== von der Pike auf (“from scratch”) === Further reading === Pike on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia de Wolfgang Pfeifer, editor (1993), “Pike”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen (in German), 2nd edition, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN Philippa, Marlies; Debrabandere, Frans; Quak, Arend; Schoonheim, Tanneke; van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009), “piek”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands‎[1] (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press “Pike” in Duden online