sken
English edit
Etymology edit
Obscure origin, possibly related to askance.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
sken (third-person singular simple present skens, present participle skenning, simple past and past participle skenned)
- (Northern English) to squint
- 1989, Marie Joseph, A World Apart, page 344:
- She's about seventy and skens like a basket of whelks, but she's as good as any doctor.
- 1861, Edwin Waugh, The Birtle Carter's Tale About Owd Bodle:
- He skens ill enough to crack a lookin'-glass.
- (Northern English) to glance
References edit
- ^ “sken”, in OED Online , Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
Anagrams edit
Old Saxon edit
Verb edit
skēn
Swedish edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old Swedish sken, skin, from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną. Cognate of German Schein, English shine.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
sken n
- a light, a glow
- månens matta sken
- the dim light of the moon
- an appearance; guise
- försöka ge sken av något
- try to give the impression of something
- skenet bedrar
Declension edit
Declension of sken | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | sken | skenet | sken | skenen |
Genitive | skens | skenets | skens | skenens |
Derived terms edit
Related terms edit
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
sken n
Etymology 3 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
sken
- past indicative of skina
References edit
- sken in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
Further reading edit
- sken in Svensk ordbok.
- sken in Reverso Context (Swedish-English)