different between oaken vs waken

English

Etymology

From Middle English oken (also eken), from Old English ?cen, ?cen (“of oak”), from Proto-Germanic *aik?naz, equivalent to oak +? -en (adjectival suffix). Cognate with Dutch eiken (“oaken”), German eichen (“oaken”), Icelandic eikinn (“oaken”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?k'?n, IPA^(key): /??k.?n/
• Rhymes: -??k?n

Adjective

oaken (not comparable)

1. Made from the wood of the oak tree. Also in metaphorical uses, suggesting robustness.

Translations

Anagrams

• Kanoé, Keano

English

Etymology

From Middle English waknen, from Old English wæcnan, from Proto-Germanic *waknan?.

Pronunciation

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

Verb

waken (third-person singular simple present wakens, present participle wakening, simple past and past participle wakened)

1. (transitive) To wake or rouse from sleep.
2. (intransitive) To awaken; to cease to sleep; to be awakened; to stir.

   • Early, Turnus wakening with the light.

   • She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

Related terms

• awaken

Anagrams

• Wanek, Wanke

Dutch

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch waken, from Old Dutch wacon, from Proto-Germanic *wak?n? (“to be awake”).

Verb

waken

1. (intransitive) to stay awake
2. (intransitive) to watch, to be alert

Inflection

Derived terms

• bewaken
• ontwaken
• waakhond
• waakkat
• waakvlam

Related terms

• wake
• wakker
• wekken

Descendants

• ? Papiamentu: wak

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

waken

1. Plural form of wake

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch wacon

Verb

w?ken

1. (intransitive) to wake, to be awake
2. (intransitive) to not be or fall asleep, to stay awake
3. (intransitive) to awaken, to wake up
4. (transitive) to guard

Inflection

Descendants

• Dutch: waken
• Limburgish: wake

Further reading

• “waken (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “waken (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English wacan, from Proto-Germanic *wakan?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?wa?k?n/

Verb

waken

1. to wake, cease from sleep, to be awake
2. to remain awake on watch (especially over a corpse)

Conjugation

Related terms

• wake (“a watch, vigil”)
• wakien (“to watch, awake”)
• waknen (“to waken, to be aroused from sleep”)

Descendants

• English: wake
• Scots: wake

Etymology 2

From Old English w?cian.

Verb

waken

1. Alternative form of woken