seken
See also: Seken
Chuukese
Etymology
Borrowed from English second.
Noun
seken
- second (unit of time)
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 (Kentish)
- sæcan, secan, secen, siec, sæche, sechan, sechien, sechon, scechen (early)
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 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.
- late 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 12-14.
Descendants
- English: seek, seech (Lancashire and other dialects)
- Scots: seek
- Yola: zeek
References
- “sẹ̄chen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Turkish
Verb
seken
- present participle of sekmek