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Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
erkent
- inflection of erkennen:
- second/third-person singular present indicative
- (archaic) plural imperative
Anagrams
Tocharian B
Etymology
From Proto-Tocharian *erkent (whence also Tocharian A arkant), but from there uncertain. Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₁regʷ- (“to be dark”) (cognate with Ancient Greek Ἔρεβος (Érebos), Old Norse røkkr (“twilight”), etc.) or Proto-Indo-European *h₂erǵ- (“white, shining”) (cognate with Latin argentum and semantically akin to English black <> bleach).
Adjective
erkent
- black, dark
Usage notes
- This word was often used as a compound, as Tocharian B was particularly agglutinative.
Further reading
- Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “erkent-”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 101