spook
Dutch (Brabantic)
/spoːk/
noun
Definitions
- phantom, ghost
- horror, terror
- an annoying and intolerable woman
Etymology
Inherited from Middle Dutch spoke inherited from Proto-Germanic *spōk.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*spōk
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Spooklight English
- outspook English
- spook English
- spookable English
- spookdom English
- spooker English
- spookery English
- spookfest English
- spookfish English
- spookhouse English
- spookish English
- spookless English
- spookmaster English
- spookshow English
- spookspeak English
- spooktacular English
- spooktastic English
- spooky English
- superspook English
- Spuk German
- spukhaft German
- dier Dutch, Flemish
- dorp Dutch, Flemish
- huis Dutch, Flemish
- rijder Dutch, Flemish
- schip Dutch, Flemish
- spoken Dutch, Flemish
- spokerij Dutch, Flemish
- spookachtig Dutch, Flemish
- spookdier Dutch, Flemish
- spookdorp Dutch, Flemish
- spookhuis Dutch, Flemish
- spookrijder Dutch, Flemish
- spookschip Dutch, Flemish
- spookstad Dutch, Flemish
- spooktrein Dutch, Flemish
- spookverhaal Dutch, Flemish
- spookwoord Dutch, Flemish
- stad Dutch, Flemish
- trein Dutch, Flemish
- verhaal Dutch, Flemish
- voor Dutch, Flemish
- voorspook Dutch, Flemish
- woord Dutch, Flemish
- *pūkô Proto-Germanic
- *spōk Proto-Germanic
- puca Old English
- púca Irish
- spøg Danish
- spaug Icelandic
- spoke Middle Dutch
- spoken Middle Dutch
- spooc Middle Dutch
- vorespoke Middle Dutch
- spook Afrikaans
- spôk Middle Low German
- spōk Middle Low German
- isiporho Xhosa
- Spöök Low German
- bucca Cornish
- spuku Sranan Tongo
- chipoko Shona
- isipoko North Ndebele