peak ستیغ setiq (#) Fr.: pic The pointed top of a mountain or ridge. The pointed top of anything.
→ Gamow peak; → peak wavelength. Etymology (EN): Perhaps from M.L.G. pék “pick, pike.” Etymology (PE): Setiq “summit, top,” from *us-tig, from us-, → ex-, - tig “pointed,” related to tiq “blade,” tiz “sharp,”
tež, tej, tij;
Mid.Pers. tigr, têz, têž “sharp,” O.Pers. tigra- “pointed,”
tigra.xauda- “pointed helmet (epithet of Scythians),”
Av. tiγra- “pointed,”
tiγray- “arrow,” tiži.arštay- “with the pointed spear,”
cf. Skt. tikta- “sharp, pungent, bitter,” tejas- “sharpness, edge,
point or top of a flame;” PIE base *st(e)ig- “to stick; pointed.” Cognates in
other IE languages: Gk. stizein “to prick, puncture,” stigma
“mark made by a pointed instrument,” L. in-stigare “to goad,”
O.H.G. stehhan, Ger. stechen “to stab, prick,” Du. stecken,
O.E. sticca “rod, twig, spoon,” E. stick.
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