different between lieu vs liek

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French lieu, from Latin locum, accusative of locus (“place”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /l(j)u?/
• Rhymes: -u?
• Homophone: loo (in some accents)

Noun

lieu (uncountable)

1. place, stead; See in lieu or in lieu of

Translations

Anagrams

• euil, liue

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ljø/
• Homophones: lieue, lieus, lieux, lieues

Etymology 1

From Middle French lieu, from Old French leu, from Latin locum, accusative of locus, from Old Latin stlocus, from Proto-Indo-European *stel- (“to put, place, locate”).

Noun

lieu m (plural lieux)

1. place

Synonyms

• endroit
• place

Derived terms

Related terms

• louer
• loyer
• location

Etymology 2

From Middle French lief, from Old Norse lýr, lýrr, from Proto-Germanic *liuhizaz. Cognate with Norwegian lyr.

Noun

lieu m (plural lieus)

1. any of several fish from the Pollachius family.

Derived terms

Further reading

• “lieu” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French leu.

Noun

lieu m (plural lieux or lieus)

1. place

Descendants

• French: lieu

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Norse lýðrr.

Noun

lieu m (plural lieus)

1. (Jersey) whiting (fish)

Romansch

Alternative forms

• (Sursilvan) liug
• (Sutsilvan) liac
• (Surmiran) li
• (Puter, Vallader) lö

Etymology

From Latin locus.

Noun

lieu m

1. (Rumantsch Grischun) place

English

Verb

liek

1. (Internet slang, nonstandard) Deliberate misspelling of like.

Anagrams

• -like, Kiel, Kile, Like, kile, like

Latvian

Verb

liek

1. 3rd person singular present indicative form of likt
2. 3rd person plural present indicative form of likt
3. (with the particle lai) 3rd person singular imperative form of likt
4. (with the particle lai) 3rd person plural imperative form of likt

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

liek m (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. Obsolete spelling of lijek

Slovak

Noun

liek m

1. medicine, pharmaceutical drug

Further reading

• liek in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk