maken

From Middle English maken, equivalent to make +‎ -en.

• Rhymes: -eɪkən

maken

1. (obsolete) plural simple present of make
   • 1542, Eraſmus of Roterodame, “The Saiynges of Alexander the Greate”, in Nicolas Vdall, transl., Apothegmes […] ‎, page 197:

     And emõges his familiares theſe wordes folowyng were muche in his mouthe: The damyſelles of Perſia maken ſore yies.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 1, page 410:

     To whom no ſhare in armes and cheualree, / They doe impart, ne maken memoree […]

   • 1606, N[athaniel] B[axter], Sir Philip Sydneys Ouránia, That Is, Endimions Song and Tragedie, Containing All Philosophie, London: […] Ed. Allde, for Edward White, […], →OCLC, signature [D4], verso:

     All theſe Starres maken one hundred and eight, / Bright and conſpicuous without deceite.

• Ekman, Kamen, Manke

From Middle Dutch maken, from Old Dutch macon, from Proto-West Germanic *makōn.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaːkə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: ma‧ken
• Rhymes: -aːkən

maken

1. (transitive) to make, to create
2. (transitive) to fix, to repair, to mend
3. (transitive) to take (a photo)
4. (copulative) to make, cause to become

   Synonym: ver- -en

• Afrikaans: maak
• Javindo: maken
• Jersey Dutch: māke
• Negerhollands: mak, maak
• Skepi Creole Dutch: mak

maken

1. Rōmaji transcription of まけん

maken

1. woman

   Yikn ka maken wurun-el.

   You are a woman from the bush.

• Henry, Joan. Kombio Grammar Essentials. Ms. 123pp. (1992).

From Middle Low German maken, from Old Saxon makōn, from Proto-West Germanic *makōn. See also Plautdietsch moaken (diphthongization before velar).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.kə(n)/, /ˈmæː.kə(n)/, /ˈmɑː.kə(n)/, /ˈmɒː.kə(n)/ Either the /ə/ or the /n/ may be dropped
• (Dialects with merger of /ɒː/ and /ɔʊ̯/) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔʊ̯.kə(n)/
• Hyphenation: ma‧ken

maken (past singular möök or makt, past participle makt or maakt, auxiliary verb hebben)

1. To make.

• plattmaakt

From Old Dutch macon, from Proto-West Germanic *makōn.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaːkən/

māken

1. to make
2. to make, to cause to be
   • 1249, Schepenbrief van Bochoute, Velzeke, eastern Flanders:

     Si maken bekent die nu sien ende wesen selen

     They make known to those who are now and will be

• Dutch: maken
  • Afrikaans: maak
• Limburgish: make
• → Picard Old French: makier, maquier
  • → Middle French: maquier, macquiller
    • French: maquiller
      • → Dutch: maquilleren
      • → Spanish: maquillar
      • → Portuguese: maquilhar, maquiar

• “maken (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “maken”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

• macke, mak, make, maki, makiȝe, makye, makyn
• macen, machiæ, macian, makian, makie, makien, makiȝen, makyȝe (Early Middle English)

From Old English macian, from Proto-West Germanic *makōn.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaːkən/, /ˈmakən/

maken

1. To make or create; to have something made.
   • a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Genesis 1:1-2”, in Wycliffe's Bible:

     In þe bigynnyng God made of nouȝt heuene and erþe. / Forſoþe þe erþe was idel and voide, and derkneſſis weren on the face of depþe; and the Spiryt of þe Lord was borun on the watris.

     In the beginning, God made the sky and the Earth out of nothing. / The Earth was inactive and empty, and darkness was on top of the seas' surfaces, and the Spirit of the Lord moved on the water.

   • a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “General Prologue”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 9–12:

     And ſmale foweles maken melodye / That ſlepen al the nyght with open ye / So priketh hem Nature in hir corages / Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages […]

     And small birds make song / that sleep all night with their eyes open / (as Nature pokes them in their hearts). / Then people want to go on pilgrimages […]

   • 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum xiii”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XXI, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, →OCLC, leaf 430, verso; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, →OCLC, page 860, lines 29–31:

     & ſomme englyſſhe bookes maken mencyon that they wente neuer oute of englond after the deth of ſyr Launcelot / but that was but fauour of makers […]

     And some English books make claims that they never went out of England after the death of Sir Lancelot, / but that was only authors' biases […]

After the Early Middle English period, the irregular past forms of this verb become vastly more common than their regular alternatives; maked continues to occasionally appear in the Early Modern English literary language.

• make
• maker
• unmaken

• English: make
• Geordie English: myek
• Scots: mak
• Yola: maake, maak

• “māken, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-12.

maken m

1. definite singular of make

maken m

1. definite singular of make

maken

1. definite singular of make

• manke