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Chuukese[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
seken
- second (unit of time)
Indonesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Partial phrase borrowing from English secondhand, using only the first word (second).
Adjective[edit]
seken
Further reading[edit]
- “seken” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- sech, seche, secche, sheche, shechen, seichen, siech, sieche, siechen, siche, such, suche, sek, seke, ceken, seik, seike, sieke, sike
- zech, zeche, zechen (Kent)
- sæcan, secan, secen, siec, sæche, sechan, sechien, sechon, scechen (Early Middle English)
Etymology[edit]
From Old English sēċan, From Proto-West Germanic *sōkijan, from Proto-Germanic *sōkijaną.
Verb[edit]
seken (third-person singular simple present seketh, present participle sekende, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle sought)
- to seek
- late 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 12-14.
- Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes
To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;- Then folk do long to go on pilgrimage,
And palmers to go seeking out strange strands,
To distant shrines well known in distant lands.
- Then folk do long to go on pilgrimage,
- late 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 12-14.
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “sẹ̄chen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Turkish[edit]
Verb[edit]
seken
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- Middle English terms inherited from Old English
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- Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Middle English lemmas
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