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Chuukese
Etymology
Borrowed from English second.
Noun
seken
- second (unit of time)
Indonesian
Etymology
Partial phrase borrowing from English secondhand, using only the first word (second).
Adjective
seken
- secondhand
Further reading
Middle English
Alternative forms
- sech, seche, secche, sheche, shechen, seichen, siech, sieche, siechen, siche, such, suche, sek, seke, ceken, seik, seike, sieke, sike
- zech, zeche, zechen (Kent)
- sæcan, secan, secen, siec, sæche, sechan, sechien, sechon, scechen (Early Middle English)
Etymology
From Old English sēċan, From Proto-West Germanic *sōkijan, from Proto-Germanic *sōkijaną.
Verb
seken (third-person singular simple present seketh, present participle sekende, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle sought)
- 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.
Descendants
References
Turkish
Verb
seken
- present participle of sekmek