wake

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English

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Etymology 1

A merger of two verbs of similar form and meaning:

Verb

wake (third-person singular simple present wakes, present participle waking, simple past woke or waked, past participle woken or waked or (now colloquial) woke)

  1. (intransitive) (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
    I woke up at four o'clock this morning.
    • 1898, J. Meade Falkner, chapter 4, in Moonfleet, London, Toronto, Ont.: Jonathan Cape, published 1934:
      How long I slept I cannot tell, for I had nothing to guide me to the time, but woke at length, and found myself still in darkness.
  2. (transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
    The neighbour's car alarm woke me from a strange dream.
  3. (transitive, figurative) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
  4. (intransitive, figurative) To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
  5. To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
    • 1824, Sir Walter Scott, Redgauntlet:
      Dougal said that being alone with the dead on that floor of the tower (for naebody cared to wake Sir Robert Redgauntlet like another corpse) he had never daured to answer the call, but that now his conscience checked him for neglecting his duty; […]
  6. To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
  7. (obsolete) To be alert; to keep watch
    Command unto the guards that they diligently wake.
  8. (obsolete) To sit up late for festive purposes; to hold a night revel.
Conjugation
Conjugation of wake
infinitive (to) wake
present tense past tense
1st-person singular wake woke, waked
2nd-person singular wake, wakest† woke, waked, wokest†
3rd-person singular wakes, waketh† woke, waked
plural wake
subjunctive wake woke, waked
imperative wake —
participles waking woken, waked, woke (now colloquial)

†Archaic or obsolete.

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Etymology 2

From Middle English wake, from Old English wacu, from Proto-Germanic *wakō, related to the verb *wakjaną.

Noun

wake (plural wakes)

  1. (often obsolete or poetic) The act of waking, or state of being awake.
  2. The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
    • 1697, Virgil, “Palamon and Arcite”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. , London: Jacob Tonson, , →OCLC:
      The warlike wakes continued all the night,
      And funeral games played at new returning light.
    • 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: , London: [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, , published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus:  (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:
      The wood nymphs, deckt with daises trim,
      Their merry wakes and pastimes keep.
  3. A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party and/or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects.
    • 2003, Section 14(1)(a), Infectious Diseases Act (Cap. 137, R. Ed. 2003)
      Where any person has died whilst being, or suspected of being, a case or carrier or contact of an infectious disease, the Director may by order prohibit the conduct of a wake over the body of that person or impose such conditions as he thinks fit on the conduct of such wake
  4. (historical, Church of England) A yearly parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking.
  5. A number of vultures assembled together.
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Etymology 3

Probably from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch wake, from or akin to Old Norse vǫk (“a hole in the ice”) ( > Danish våge, Icelandic vök), from Proto-Germanic *wakwō (“wetness”), from Proto-Indo-European *wegʷ- (“moist, wet”).

Noun

wake (plural wakes)

  1. (nautical) The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
  2. The movement of water created when an animal or a person moves through water.
  3. (aviation) The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
  4. (figuratively) The area behind something, typically a rapidly-moving object.
    • 1826, Thomas De Quincey, “Lessing”, in Blackwood's Magazine:
      This effect followed immediately in the wake of his earliest exertions.
    • 1857–1859, W[illiam] M[akepeace] Thackeray, The Virginians. A Tale of the Last Century, volumes (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury & Evans, , published 1858–1859, →OCLC:
      Several humbler persons […] formed quite a procession in the dusty wake of his chariot wheels.
    • 2010, Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, chapter 5, in Merchants of Doubt:
      It was all of a piece. If you believed in capitalism, you had to attack science, because science had revealed the hazards that capitalism had brought in its wake.
    • 2011 September 28, Tom Rostance, “Arsenal 2 - 1 Olympiakos”, in BBC Sport‎:
      Alex Song launched a long ball forward from the back and the winger took it down nicely on his chest. He cut across the penalty area from the right and after one of the three defenders in his wake failed to make a meaningful clearance, the Oxlade-Chamberlain was able to dispatch a low left-footed finish into the far corner.
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Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *waka, from Proto-Germanic *wakō, related to the verb *wakjaną.

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Noun

wake f (plural waken)

  1. A wake (a gathering to remember a dead person).

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Verb

wake

  1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of waken

Japanese

Romanization

wake

  1. Rōmaji transcription of わけ

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English wacu, from Proto-Germanic *wakō, related to the verb *wakjaną.

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Pronunciation

Noun

wake (plural wakes)

  1. sleeplessness, wakefulness
  2. vigil
  3. festival, celebration
Descendants
  • English: wake
  • Yola: wake
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Etymology 2

Adjective

wake

  1. Alternative form of woke

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

wake

  1. plural of mke

Adjective

wake

  1. M class inflected form of -ake.
  2. U class inflected form of -ake.
  3. Wa class inflected form of -ake.

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From Meriam wakey.

Noun

wake

  1. (eastern dialect) thigh, upper leg

Synonyms

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English wake, from Old English wacu.

Pronunciation

Noun

wake

  1. consequence
    • 1867, CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 116, lines 2-4:
      ye wake o'hopes ee-blighte, stampe na yer zwae be rare an lightzom.
      the consequence of disappointed hopes, confirms your rule to be rare and enlightened.

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 116
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