waken

From Middle English waknen, from Old English wæcnan, from Proto-Germanic *waknaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈweɪkən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪkən

waken (third-person singular simple present wakens, present participle wakening, simple past and past participle wakened)

1. (transitive) To wake or rouse from sleep.
2. (intransitive) To awaken; to cease to sleep; to be awakened; to stir.
   • 1697, Virgil, “The Ninth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     Early, Turnus wakening with the light.

   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter II, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, →OCLC:

     She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

• awaken

• Wanek, Wanke

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋaːkə(n)/
• Rhymes: -aːkən

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From Middle Dutch waken, from Old Dutch wacon, from Proto-Germanic *wakāną (“to be awake”).

waken

1. (intransitive) to stay awake
2. (intransitive) to watch, to be alert

• bewaken
• ontwaken
• waakhond
• waakkat
• waakvlam

• wake
• wakker
• wekken

• Negerhollands: waek
• → Papiamentu: wak, waak

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

waken

1. Plural form of wake

From Old Dutch wacon.

wāken

1. (intransitive) to wake, to be awake
2. (intransitive) to not be or fall asleep, to stay awake
3. (intransitive) to awaken, to wake up
4. (transitive) to guard

• Dutch: waken
• Limburgish: wake

• “waken (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “waken (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

From Old English wacan, from Proto-Germanic *wakaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwaːkən/

waken

1. to wake, cease from sleep, to be awake
2. to remain awake on watch (especially over a corpse)

• wake (“a watch, vigil”)
• wakien (“to watch, awake”)
• waknen (“to waken, to be aroused from sleep”)

• English: wake
• Scots: wake

From Old English wācian.

waken

1. Alternative form of woken