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Ecke

Pronunciation: /ˈɛkə/

“Ecke” is a German word. Its 8 meanings in English:

noun

  1. corner, edge
  2. a roughly triangular or quadrangular piece of something
  3. corner of a house / of two streets
  4. region, area, neighbourhood
  5. bit, tad
  6. vertex, node
  7. corner, corner kick
  8. one of the two areas of a goal near where the post and goalline meet; bottom or lower corner

Etymology

From Middle High German ecke, from Old High German egga, from Proto-West Germanic *aggju, from Proto-Germanic *agjō. Compare English edge.

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