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See also: Unken
English
Etymology 1
Back-formation from unkenned, equivalent to un- + ken.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ʌnˈkɛn/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Verb
unken (third-person singular simple present unkens, present participle unkenning, simple past and past participle unkenned)
Etymology 2
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʊŋkən/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
unken (not comparable)
- Only used in unken reflex.
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German
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
unken (weak, third-person singular present unkt, past tense unkte, past participle geunkt, auxiliary haben) (somewhat derogatory, intransitive or transitive) [with subordinate clause or quote]
- to prophesy failure or doom
- Synonyms: menetekeln, schwarzmalen
- 2022 April 2, Klaus Walter, “Techno und Rauschzustände”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz, →ISSN, page 19:
- Viele hatten schon nicht mehr dran geglaubt. Und wer weiß, vielleicht kommt doch noch was dazwischen, wird hier und da geunkt.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- to say cynically, to whine
- 1998 April 2, “Leipzig und Literatur: Die Buchmesse gedeiht”, in Die Zeit, number 1998/15, archived from the original on 16 June 2013:
- Wir brauchen keine zweite Messe, unkten nicht wenige Sortimenter und Verleger aus dem Westen.
- We don't need a second fair, whined quite a few retail booksellers and publishers from [Western Germany].
Conjugation
1Rare except in very formal contexts; alternative in würde normally preferred.
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North Frisian
Pronoun
unken
Sumerian
Romanization
unken
- romanization of 𒌺 (unken)
Swedish
Etymology
Uncertain. Proposals have been made connecting it with Proto-Indo-European *wegʷ- (“wet; moist”) (and thus Ancient Greek ὑγρός (hugrós) and Latin ūvidus), or with the Proto-Indo-European root behind Ancient Greek ἀδήν (adḗn) and Latin inguen.
Adjective
unken (comparative unknare, superlative unknast)
Declension
1 The indefinite superlative forms are only used in the predicative.
2 Dated or archaic.
3 Only used, optionally, to refer to things whose natural gender is masculine.
Derived terms
References
- unken in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- unken in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- unken in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- unken in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
- Sven Ekbo, John Svensson, K.G. Ljunggren, Bertil Ejder, Bertil Björseth, Erik Abrahamson, Lennart Moberg, Axel Lindqvist (1952), Meijerbergs arkiv för svensk ordforskning, volume 8, Göteborg, page 101
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