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).

Adjective

seken

1. secondhand

Further reading

• “seken” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, 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