kolk
English
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔlk/
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: kolk
- Rhymes: -ɔlk
Etymology 1
From Middle Dutch colc, from Old Dutch *kolk, from Proto-West Germanic *kolk (“hollow, pit, gully”), from Proto-Germanic *kulukaz, an extension of *kelǭ (“throat”).
Noun
kolk f or m (plural kolken, diminutive kolkje n)
- vortex, maelstrom
- Synonym: draaikolk
- A drain that is part a sewer system.
- Synonym: put
- A small waterway connected to one or several windmills that control the water level in a polder, serving as a conduit to remove surplus water.
- Synonyms: boezemsloot, kolksloot, molenkolk
- A dyke beside such a waterway.
- Synonyms: kolkdijk, molenkolk
- A stagnant pool or lake resulting from the vortex of e.g. a breached dyke.
- The body of water between sluice gates.
- Synonym: sluiskolk
- A dug watering hole.
Derived terms
- draaikolk
- kolkdijk
- kolksloot
- molenkolk
- rioolkolk
- sluiskolk
- straatkolk
Descendants
- → Afrikaans: kolk
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
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