kaak.
jaw
Meaning & usage
jaw
De kaakchirurg onderzocht zijn kaak en constateerde een kleine scheur.
cheek, cone
Ze at een ijsje en voelde de kou op haar kaakjes.
gill
De vis had prachtige rode kaken
Where this word comes from
From Proto-Germanic *kekǭ, *kēkǭ, *kakǭ, *kaukǭ, *keukǭ (“jaw; palate; pharynx”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵyewh₁- (“to chew”). Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Sooke (“cheek”), West Frisian tsjeak (“jaw”), English cheek, Swedish käke (“jaw; jowl”), Norwegian kjake (“jaw”), Old Norse kók (“mouth; gullet”).
ship biscuit
Where this word comes from
Borrowed from English cake. Doublet of cake.
pillory
Where this word comes from
From Middle Dutch kaeck (“scaffold”), of obscure origin with no clues outside of Germanic; the non-Indo-European structure of a potential reconstruction *gVg- (two voiced consonants) may indicate a borrowing from a pre-Indo-European substrate language. German kak is borrowed from Low German.
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