taken

English

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Alternative forms

• ta'en, tane (archaic, dialectal, Scotland)

Etymology

From Middle English taken, takenn, from Old English tacen, *ġetacen, from Old Norse tekinn, from Proto-Germanic *tēkanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *tēkaną (“to take; grasp; touch”). Cognate with Scots takin, tane, Danish tagen, Swedish tagen, Icelandic tekin.

Morphologically take +‎ -n.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈteɪkən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪkən
• Hyphenation: tak‧en

Adjective

taken (not comparable)

1. Infatuated; fond of or attracted to.

   He was very taken with the girl, I hear.

2. (informal) In a serious romantic relationship.

   I can't ask her out, she's taken.

Derived terms

• taken aback

Translations

Verb

taken

1. past participle of take
   • 1662, John Baxter, A Saint Or a Brute ‎, page 26:

     No doubt many a journey you have rode and gone, and many a hard daies labour you have taken, and ſharpened perhaps with care and grief […]

Anagrams

• Kenta, tekan

Dutch

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch tāken, from Old Dutch *takan, from Proto-West Germanic *takan (“to take; grasp, touch”), from Proto-Germanic *takaną (“to touch, grasp; take”).

Verb

taken

1. (archaic, dialectal) to take, to grasp
2. (archaic, dialectal) to touch

Inflection

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

taken

1. plural of taak

Anagrams

• akten, kante, tanke

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *takan, from Proto-West Germanic *takan (“to take; grasp, touch”), from Proto-Germanic *takaną (“to touch, grasp; take”).

Verb

tāken

1. to take, to grab
2. to get, to achieve

Inflection

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Descendants

• Dutch: taken
• Limburgish: take

Further reading

• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “taken”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

Middle English

Etymology 1

From late Old English tacan, from Old Norse taka, from Proto-Germanic *tēkaną (“to touch, grasp”).

Alternative forms

• tak, take, takon, takke, tac, tacke, thake, to
• ta, tan, tane (Northern)
• tacen, tæcen (Early Middle English)

Verb

taken (third-person singular simple present taketh, present participle takinge, first-/third-person singular past indicative tok, past participle taken)

2. to take
   • c. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, General Prologue, lines 33–34:

     And made forward erly for to ryse / To take our wey, ther as I yow devyse.

     And made agreement that we'd early rise / To take the road, as I will to you apprise.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• tak

Descendants

• English: take
• Geordie English: tyek
• Scots: tak, ta
• Yola: taake

References

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

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• take, takene, takun, takuth, teken
• tas, tase (Northern); ta, tan (northwest Midlands)

Verb

taken

1. present indicative/subjunctive plural of taken (“to take”)

Etymology 3

Alternative forms

• take, tak, takene, takenne, takine, takein, takon, takun, thaken, toke, token, tok, tane, tan, taked
• tain, taine, tone, ton, toine, tene (Northern); tain, taine (northeast Midlands)

Verb

taken

1. past participle of taken (“to take”)

Etymology 4

Noun

taken (plural takenes)

1. (Northern, Early Middle English) Alternative form of token

Etymology 5

Verb

taken (third-person singular simple present taketh, present participle takende, takynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle taked)

1. (Northern) Alternative form of toknen

Swedish

Noun

taken

1. definite plural of tak

Anagrams

• akten, naket, nekat, tanke