loken

See also: Loken, Løken, and löken

Dutch

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -oːkən

Verb

loken

1. inflection of luiken:
   1. plural past indicative
   2. (dated or formal) plural past subjunctive

Anagrams

• lonke

Middle English

Alternative forms

• loke, lokke, looke
• locan, locen, lokenn, lokiæn, lokien, lokin (Early Middle English)
• luke (Northern); loki, loky (Kent)

Etymology

Inherited from Old English lōcian, from Proto-West Germanic *lōkōn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈloːkən/
• (Northern) IPA^(key): /lyːk/

Verb

loken (third-person singular simple present loketh, present participle lokende, lokynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle loked)

1. to look (at)
2. to look (to appear to be)

Conjugation

Conjugation of loken (weak in -ed)

infinitive	(to) loken, loke
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	loke	loked
2nd-person singular	lokest	lokedest
3rd-person singular	loketh	loked
subjunctive singular	loke
imperative singular		—
plural1	loken, loke	lokeden, lokede
imperative plural	loketh, loke	—
participles	lokynge, lokende	loked, yloked

¹ Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Derived terms

• biloken
• umbeloken
• underloken

Descendants

• English: look (see there for further descendants)

  Geordie: luik, leuk

• Middle Scots: luke, luik
  • Scots: luik, leuk, luke
• Yola: looke

References

• “lọ̄ken, v.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Swedish

Noun

loken

1. definite plural of lok

Anagrams

• kolen