sök

See also: sok, soek, SOK, sók, šok, şok, and søk

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse sǫk, from Proto-Germanic *sakō. Cognate with Faroese søk, Norwegian and Swedish sak, Danish sag, English sake, Dutch zaak, German Sache.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /sœːk/
Rhymes: -œːk

Noun

sök f (genitive singular sakar, nominative plural sakir)

accusation
fault
(in the plural) affair, matter(s)
reason, cause

Declension

declension of sök

	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
f-s2	singular		plural
nominative	sök	sökin	sakir	sakirnar
accusative	sök	sökina	sakir	sakirnar
dative	sök	sökinni	sökum	sökunum
genitive	sakar	sakarinnar	saka	sakanna

Derived terms

bera sakir á einhvern
eiga sök á einhverju
eins og nú standa sakir
fara hægt í sakirnar
fara vægt í sakirnar

gefa einhverjum sakir á einhverju
gefa einhverjum upp sakir
gefa einhverjum upp sök
koma ekki að sök
sök mín er sú

svo sem sakir falla til
vera í sökum við einhvern
verða sannur að sök
verða sannur að sökum

Anagrams

kös

Swedish

Verb

sök

imperative of söka.

Usage notes

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 (“a search”). See also webbsök (“web search”).

Volapük

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [søk]

Noun

sök (plural söks)

(obsolete) insect

Usage notes

This older term has been replaced by the word näsäk (“insect”) (which ultimately derives from the Latin word insectum "insect", by way of the French phrase: "un insecte" [(œ̃ ).nɛ̃.sɛkt], which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

Declension

declension of sök

	singular	plural
nominative	sök	söks
genitive	söka	sökas
dative	söke	sökes
accusative	söki	sökis
vocative ¹	o sök!	o söks!
predicative ²	söku	sökus

¹ status as a case is disputed
² in some later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms

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