seken

Borrowed from English second.

seken

1. second (unit of time)

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seken

1. secondhand

• “seken” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

• 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)

From Old English sēċan, From Proto-West Germanic *sōkijan, from Proto-Germanic *sōkijaną.

seken (third-person singular simple present seketh, present participle sekende, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle sought)

1. 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.

• English: seek, seech (Lancashire and other dialects)
• Scots: seek
• Yola: zeek

• “sẹ̄chen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

seken

1. present participle of sekmek