schaken

• IPA^(key): /ˈsxaː.kə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: scha‧ken
• Rhymes: -aːkən

From Middle Dutch schâken. Equivalent to schaak +‎ -en.

schaken

1. (intransitive) to play chess

• schaker

Gerund of the verb schaken.

schaken n (uncountable)

1. (games) chess

From Middle Dutch schaken, procope of ontschaken.

schaken

1. (transitive, dated, chiefly of women) to kidnap, to ravish

   Een geschaakte bruid. ― A rapt bride.

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• Afrikaans: skaak

From Old Saxon skakan, from Proto-Germanic *skakaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keg- (“to shake, stir”), *(s)kek-. Cognate with English shake, Dutch schaken, West Frisian schaakje, Danish skage, Norwegian skake, Swedish skaka.

schaken (past singular schaak, past participle schaken, auxiliary verb wesen or hebben)

1. to move, shift
2. to push, shake

From schâec +‎ -en.

schâken

1. to play chess
2. to put in check

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: schaken
• Limburgish: sjake (with unetymological a rather than expected ao)

• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “schaken (III)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page III