seken
See also: Seken
Chuukese
Etymology
Noun
seken
- second (unit of time)
Indonesian
Etymology
Partial phrase borrowing from English secondhand, using only the first word (second).
Pronunciation
- (Standard Indonesian) IPA(key): /ˈsɛkən/ [ˈsɛ.kən]
- Rhymes: -ɛkən
- Syllabification: se‧ken
Adjective
seken
Further reading
- “seken” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.
Japanese
Romanization
seken
Middle English
Alternative forms
- 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
From Old English sēċan, From Proto-West Germanic *sōkijan, from Proto-Germanic *sōkijaną.
Verb
seken (third-person singular simple present seketh, present participle sekende, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle soughtaccel-form=1//3|s|past|ind)
- 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
References
- “sẹ̄chen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Turkish
Verb
seken
- present participle of sekmek