aken
English
Etymology 1
From Old English ācennan or gecennan, equivalent to a- + cennan (“to give birth to”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈkɛn/
- Rhymes: -ɛn
Verb
aken (third-person singular simple present akens, present participle akenning, simple past and past participle akenned)
- (obsolete) To bear, give birth to. (Usually in the past participle.)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈeɪkən/
- Rhymes: -eɪkən
Estonian
Etymology
From Old East Slavic окъно (okŭno). Cognate to Finnish ikkuna and akkuna.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -en
Declension
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
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: Aken
- Limburgish: Aoke
Further reading
- “aken”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
Middle English
Etymology 1
Inherited from Old English acan, from Proto-West Germanic *akan, from Proto-Germanic *akaną; equivalent to ache + -en (infinitival suffix).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈaːkən/, /ˈɛːkən/, /ˈɔːkən/
Conjugation
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.
References
- “āken, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-14.
Peranakan Indonesian
Etymology
From Malay akan (“will”), from Classical Malay اكن (akan), from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *aken (“preposition, on, upon; applicative marker”).
Adverb
aken
References
- Kwee Hing Tjiat (1921) Doea Kapala Batoe [Two Hardheaded (Persons)] (in Peranakan Indonesian), Nauer & Dimmick, page 5