sök

Derived from Old Norse sǫk, from Proto-Germanic *sakō. Cognate with Faroese søk, Norwegian Bokmål sak, Norwegian Nynorsk sak, Swedish sak, Danish sag, English sake, Dutch zaak, German Low German Saak, Sook, and German Sache.

• IPA^(key): /sœːk/
• Rhymes: -œːk

sök f (genitive singular sakar, nominative plural sakir)

1. accusation
2. fault
3. (in the plural) affair, matter(s)
4. reason, cause

• sakleysi

• kös

sök

1. imperative of söka

• The short and catchy sök is used on search buttons of computer applications and websites. It is also colloquially used as a shorthand for the associated noun sökning (“search”). See also webbsök (“web search”).

• kös, öks

Borrowed from English insect ("-sec-" [sɛk] changed to "sök" [søk]).

• IPA^(key): [søk]

sök (nominative plural söks)

1. (obsolete) insect

This older term has been replaced by the word näsäk (“insect”) (which ultimately derives from the Latin word īnsectum (“insect”), by way of the French phrase: "un insecte" [(œ̃ ).nɛ̃.sɛkt], which was transformed into [nɛ.ˈsɛk] and respelled as "näsäk").

• sökav (= näsäkav)
• sökavel (= näsäkavan)
• sökavik (= näsäkavik)
• sökik (= näsäkik)