seken

See also: Seken

Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowed from English second.

Noun

seken

1. second (unit of time)

Indonesian

Etymology

Partial phrase borrowing from English secondhand, using only the first word (second).

Pronunciation

• (Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈsɛkən/ [ˈsɛ.kən]
• Rhymes: -ɛkən
• Syllabification: se‧ken

Adjective

seken

1. secondhand

   Synonyms: bekas, lepasan

Further reading

• “seken”, in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia [Great Dictionary of the Indonesian Language] (in Indonesian), Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016

Japanese

Romanization

seken

1. Rōmaji transcription of せけん

Middle English

Alternative forms

• sech, seche, secche, sheche, shechen, seichen, siech, sieche, siechen, siche, such, suche, sek, seke, ceken, seik, seike, sieke, sike
• zech, zeche, zechen (Kent)
• sæcan, secan, secen, siec, sæche, sechan, sechien, sechon, scechen (Early Middle English)

Etymology

From Old English sēċan, From Proto-West Germanic *sōkijan, from Proto-Germanic *sōkijaną.

Verb

seken (third-person singular simple present seketh, present participle sekende, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle sought)

1. to seek
   • late 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 12-14.

     Thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages
     And palmeres for to seken straunge strondes
     To ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes;

     Then folk do long to go on pilgrimage,
     And palmers to go seeking out strange strands,
     To distant shrines well known in distant lands.

Descendants

• English: seek, seech (Lancashire and other dialects)
• Scots: seek
• Yola: zeek

References

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

Turkish

Verb

seken

1. present participle of sekmek