From: tgpedersen
Message: 63574
Date: 2009-03-05
>I don't have the faintest. Perhaps they already had a notion something was not right with this word so what the hell, but forgot to tell the audience?
> Webster's: "geek < dial. <geck>, fool < Du <gek>, madman, fool < MLG
> <geck>: orig. echoic of unintelligible cries"
>
> But why does DEO compare MLG <geck> with Norw. dial. <geiga> and
> Germ. dial. <geigen> with <-g-> rather than <-k->?
>
> Andrew