different between ayen vs aken

English

Alternative forms

• ayein, ayeins

Etymology

Variant or relative of "again", in its obsolete sense "against".

Adverb

ayen (not comparable)

1. Back against.

Preposition

ayen

1. Back against.

Anagrams

• Enya, yean

Mapudungun

Verb

ayen (using Raguileo Alphabet)

1. To laugh.
2. first-person singular realis form of ayen; I laughed; I have laughed.

Conjugation

References

• Wixaleyiñ: Mapucezugun-wigkazugun pici hemvlcijka (Wixaleyiñ: Small Mapudungun-Spanish dictionary), Beretta, Marta; Cañumil, Dario; Cañumil, Tulio, 2008.

English

Etymology 1

From a- + Old English cennan (“to give birth to”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k?n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Verb

aken (third-person singular simple present akens, present participle akenning, simple past and past participle akenned)

1. (obsolete) To bear, give birth to. (Usually in the past participle.)

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?k?n/
• Rhymes: -e?k?n

Verb

aken

1. (obsolete) alternative past participle of ache.

Anagrams

• Kane, Kean, enka, kaen, kena, nake

Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

aken

1. Plural form of aak

Anagrams

• kane, nake

Estonian

Etymology

From Old East Slavic ok?no (ok?no). Cognate to Finnish ikkuna and akkuna.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -en

Noun

aken (genitive akna, partitive akent)

1. window

Declension

Middle Dutch

Etymology

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Noun

âken ?

1. Aachen (a city in modern Germany)

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: Aken
• Limburgish: Aoke

Further reading

• “aken”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English ?cen.

Adjective

aken

1. Alternative form of oken

Etymology 2

From Old English acan, from Proto-Germanic *akan?; equivalent to ache +? -en.

Alternative forms

• eken, æcen, oken

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a?k?n/, /???k?n/, /???k?n/

Verb

aken

1. To ache, to hurt.

Conjugation

Descendants

• English: ache
• Scots: ake

References

• “?ken, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-14.