leek – English noun declension

Noun: leek

Singular	leek
Plural	leeks

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like leek

soldier's woundwort, Nicosian, whopper, greypate, tactile sign language, chronotrope, Rosie Lee, dissentient, photoinactivator, sulphonediimine, coastal waterfall, residuary devise, bituminization, nitrosonaphthol, smṛiti, geosphere, backscreen, mensuralist, flocculate, flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. From Middle English leke, leek, lek, from Old English lēac (“a garden herb, leek, onion, garlic”), from Proto-West Germanic *lauk, from Proto-Germanic *lauką, *laukaz (“leek, onion”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewg- (“to bend”).
2. Cognate with Dutch look (“garlic, leek”), German Low German Look (“leek”), German Lauch (“leek, allium”), Danish løg (“onion”), Norwegian Bokmål løk (“onion”), Norwegian Nynorsk lauk (“onion”), Swedish lök (“onion”), Icelandic laukur (“onion, leek, garlic”). See garlic. See: Middle English Nouns 'leke', Old English Nouns 'lēac', Dutch Nouns 'look', German Nouns 'Lauch', Danish Nouns 'løg', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'løk', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'lauk', Swedish Nouns 'lök', Icelandic Nouns 'laukur'.

Verbs referencing "leek"

Dutch Nouns look, Russian Nouns лук, German Nouns Lauch, Icelandic Nouns laukur, Latvian Nouns ķiploks.