aken
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old English ācennan or gecennan, equivalent to a- + cennan (“to give birth to”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
aken (third-person singular simple present akens, present participle akenning, simple past and past participle akenned)
Etymology 2 edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
aken
- (obsolete) alternative past participle of ache.
Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
audio (file)
Noun edit
aken
Anagrams edit
Estonian edit
Etymology edit
From Old East Slavic окъно (okŭno). Cognate to Finnish ikkuna and akkuna.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -en
Noun edit
aken (genitive akna, partitive akent)
Declension edit
Declension of aken (ÕS type 8/küünal, length gradation) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | aken | aknad | |
accusative | nom. | ||
gen. | akna | ||
genitive | akende | ||
partitive | akent | aknaid | |
illative | aknasse | akendesse aknaisse | |
inessive | aknas | akendes aknais | |
elative | aknast | akendest aknaist | |
allative | aknale | akendele aknaile | |
adessive | aknal | akendel aknail | |
ablative | aknalt | akendelt aknailt | |
translative | aknaks | akendeks aknaiks | |
terminative | aknani | akendeni | |
essive | aknana | akendena | |
abessive | aknata | akendeta | |
comitative | aknaga | akendega |
Middle Dutch edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Noun edit
âken ?
Inflection edit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- “aken”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old English acan, from Proto-West Germanic *akan, from Proto-Germanic *akaną; equivalent to ache + -en (infinitival suffix).
Alternative forms edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
aken
Conjugation edit
infinitive | (to) aken, ake | ||
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present tense | past tense | ||
1st-person singular | ake | ok, aked | |
2nd-person singular | akest | oke, ok, akedest | |
3rd-person singular | aketh | ok, aked | |
subjunctive singular | ake | oke1, aked1 | |
imperative singular | — | ||
plural2 | aken, ake | oken, oke, akeden, akede | |
imperative plural | aketh, ake | — | |
participles | akynge, akende | aken, aked |
1Replaced by the indicative in later Middle English.
2Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Descendants edit
References edit
- “āken, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-14.
Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
aken
- Alternative form of oken
Peranakan Indonesian edit
Etymology edit
From Malay akan (“will”), from Classical Malay اكن (akan), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aken (“preposition, on, upon; applicative marker”).
Adverb edit
aken
- will, shall
- "Apakah kau soeda pikir betoel bahoea tindakan itoe tida aken meroegiken pada bangsa Tionghoa?"[1] ― "Have you think that that action will not make loss for Chinese nation?"
References edit
- ^ Kwee Hing Tjiat (1921) Doea Kapala Batoe [Two Hardheaded (Persons)] (in Peranakan Indonesian), Nauer & Dimmick, page 5