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sticka

“sticka” is a Swedish word. Its 8 meanings in English:

noun

  1. a (wood) splinter
  2. a knitting needle
  3. a long, thin, sharp object

verb

  1. to knit
  2. to sting, prick
  3. to stab
  4. to stick, put
  5. to go (somewhere), to leave (for some other place)

Etymology

Old Norse stikka, from Proto-Germanic *stikkô, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)teyg-, related to Etymology 2 below. Compare Icelandic stika, English stick.

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