locken
English edit
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Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
locken
- (Scotland, Northern England or obsolete) past participle of lock
Adjective edit
locken (comparative more locken, superlative most locken)
- (Scotland, Northern England) Locked.
- (Scotland, Northern England) Webbed (of hands or toes).
- locken fingers
- (Scotland, Northern England) Stingy, tight-fisted.
- The locken hands do not give much.
- (Scotland, Northern England) Knit (of brows), also close-set, contracted.
- She stood there stock-still, her brows locken.
- 1852, Alex Harper, Fruits of Solitary Hours:
- A leering eye and locken brows, / And large Mongolian mouth and nose.
References edit
- “locken”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- The Dictionary of the Scots Language
Anagrams edit
German edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle High German locken, from Old High German lockōn, from Proto-West Germanic *lokkōn, from Proto-Germanic *lukkōną. Cognate with lügen (“to lie”), Latin laciō and Slovak lákať (“to allure”).
Verb edit
locken (weak, third-person singular present lockt, past tense lockte, past participle gelockt, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive) to lure, to entice, to tempt
- Wir locken den Feind in eine Falle.
- We're luring the enemy into a trap.
- (transitive, impersonal) to be lured
Conjugation edit
infinitive | locken | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
present participle | lockend | ||||
past participle | gelockt | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich locke | wir locken | i | ich locke | wir locken |
du lockst | ihr lockt | du lockest | ihr locket | ||
er lockt | sie locken | er locke | sie locken | ||
preterite | ich lockte | wir lockten | ii | ich lockte1 | wir lockten1 |
du locktest | ihr locktet | du locktest1 | ihr locktet1 | ||
er lockte | sie lockten | er lockte1 | sie lockten1 | ||
imperative | lock (du) locke (du) |
lockt (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
Synonyms edit
- anködern, anlocken, anziehen, fortlocken, heranlocken, heranrufen, herauslocken, herbeilocken, herlocken, hervorlocken, hineinlocken, ködern, reizen, rufen, weglocken
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Etymology 2 edit
From Old High German lochōn, from Locke (“curl”). The expected form *lochen was analogically reformed based on the noun.
Verb edit
locken (weak, third-person singular present lockt, past tense lockte, past participle gelockt, auxiliary haben)
- (transitive) to curl (something)
- (reflexive) to curl
Conjugation edit
infinitive | locken | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
present participle | lockend | ||||
past participle | gelockt | ||||
auxiliary | haben | ||||
indicative | subjunctive | ||||
singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
present | ich locke | wir locken | i | ich locke | wir locken |
du lockst | ihr lockt | du lockest | ihr locket | ||
er lockt | sie locken | er locke | sie locken | ||
preterite | ich lockte | wir lockten | ii | ich lockte1 | wir lockten1 |
du locktest | ihr locktet | du locktest1 | ihr locktet1 | ||
er lockte | sie lockten | er lockte1 | sie lockten1 | ||
imperative | lock (du) locke (du) |
lockt (ihr) |
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
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Further reading edit
- “locken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- “locken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
- “locken” in Duden online
- “locken” in OpenThesaurus.de
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) “locken”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
Middle Dutch edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
locken
- to lure
Inflection edit
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “locken”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “locken”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
Swedish edit
Noun edit
locken