sken

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English

Etymology

Obscure origin, possibly related to askance.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /skɛn/
    • Audio (Southern England)(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɛn

Verb

sken (third-person singular simple present skens, present participle skenning, simple past and past participle skenned)

  1. (Northern English) to squint
    • 1989, Marie Joseph, A World Apart, page 344:
      She's about seventy and skens like a basket of whelks, but she's as good as any doctor.
    • 1861, Edwin Waugh, The Birtle Carter's Tale About Owd Bodle:
      He skens ill enough to crack a lookin'-glass.
  2. (Northern English) to glance

References

  1. ^ “sken”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Anagrams

Old Saxon

Verb

skēn

  1. first/third-person past indicative of skinan

Swedish

Etymology 1

Inherited from Old Swedish sken, skin, from Proto-Germanic *skīnaną. Cognate of German Schein, English shine.

Pronunciation

Noun

sken n

  1. a light, a glow
    månens matta sken
    the dim light of the moon
  2. an appearance; guise
    försöka ge sken av något
    try to give the impression of something
    skenet bedrar
    appearances are deceptive
Declension
Declension of sken 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative sken skenet sken skenen
Genitive skens skenets skens skenens
Derived terms
Related terms

Etymology 2

Deverbal from skena.

Noun

sken n

  1. bolting

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

sken

  1. past indicative of skina

References

  • sken in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)

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