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Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse teikn, from Proto-Germanic *taikną, cognate with English token and German Zeichen. The noun is derived from the verb *tīhaną (“to show, accuse”) (cf. Danish te (“to behave”), German zeihen (“to accuse”)).
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Noun
tecken n
- A visible indication; a sign.
Det mörka molnet är ett tecken på att det kommer börja regna.- That dark cloud is a sign that it will begin to rain.
- A meaningful gesture
- A symbol, for example a letter of the alphabet or a more specialized sign.
- (mathematics) sign (plus or minus)
- A unit in the sign language, corresponding to a word in spoken language.
- Short for stjärntecken (“astrological sign”).
- Short for järtecken (“omen”).
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