waken

English

Etymology

From Middle English waknen, from Old English wæcnan, from Proto-Germanic *waknaną.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈweɪkən/
    • (file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪkən

Verb

waken (third-person singular simple present wakens, present participle wakening, simple past and past participle wakened)

  1. (transitive) To wake or rouse from sleep.
  2. (intransitive) To awaken; to cease to sleep; to be awakened; to stir.
    • 1697, Virgil, “The Ninth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. [], London: [] Jacob Tonson, [], →OCLC:
      Early, Turnus wakening with the light.
    • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter II, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, →OCLC:
      She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʋaːkə(n)/
  • Rhymes: -aːkən
  • (file)

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch waken, from Old Dutch wacon, from Proto-West Germanic *wakēn, from Proto-Germanic *wakāną (to be awake).

Verb

waken

  1. (intransitive) to stay awake
  2. (intransitive) to watch, to be alert
Inflection
Conjugation of waken (weak)
infinitive waken
past singular waakte
past participle gewaakt
infinitive waken
gerund waken n
present tense past tense
1st person singular waakwaakte
2nd person sing. (jij) waaktwaakte
2nd person sing. (u) waaktwaakte
2nd person sing. (gij) waaktwaakte
3rd person singular waaktwaakte
plural wakenwaakten
subjunctive sing.1 wakewaakte
subjunctive plur.1 wakenwaakten
imperative sing. waak
imperative plur.1 waakt
participles wakendgewaakt
1) Archaic.
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Negerhollands: waek
  • Papiamentu: wak, waak

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

waken

  1. plural of wake

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch wacon.

Verb

wāken

  1. (intransitive) to wake, to be awake
  2. (intransitive) to not be or fall asleep, to stay awake
  3. (intransitive) to awaken, to wake up
  4. (transitive) to guard

Inflection

Weak
Infinitive wāken
3rd sg. past
3rd pl. past
Past participle
Infinitive wāken
In genitive wākens
In dative wākene
Indicative Present Past
1st singular wāke
2nd singular wāecs, wākes
3rd singular wāect, wāket
1st plural wāken
2nd plural wāect, wāket
3rd plural wāken
Subjunctive Present Past
1st singular wāke
2nd singular wāecs, wākes
3rd singular wāke
1st plural wāken
2nd plural wāect, wāket
3rd plural wāken
Imperative Present
Singular wāec, wāke
Plural wāect, wāket
Present Past
Participle wākende

Descendants

Further reading

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English wacan, from Proto-West Germanic *wakan, from Proto-Germanic *wakaną.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwaːkən/

Verb

waken

  1. to wake, cease from sleep, to be awake
  2. to remain awake on watch (especially over a corpse)
Conjugation
Descendants

Etymology 2

From Old English wācian.

Verb

waken

  1. Alternative form of woken
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