different between wakey vs waken

English

Etymology

wake +? -y

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?we?ki/

Noun

wakey (plural not attested)

1. (military, slang) The day on which one wakes up and travels home.
   • 2003, Gary Blinco, Down a Country Lane

     'You beauty, only 364 and a wakey to go,' the countdown had begun and would continue, as few days passed without someone calling the time. I spared a thought for our temporary enemy whose tour would endure to the end of the war […]

   • 2010, Ian McGibbon, New Zealand's Vietnam War (page 542)

     Morale was also usually high, helped by the men's recognition that their service in Vietnam had strict limits – one year, or, to use a soldiers' expression of the time, 364 days and a 'wakey' (the day the men woke to prepare to fly out).

   • 2011, Richard "Barney" Bigwood, We Were Reos: Australian Infantry Reinforcements in VIETNAM (page 47)

     When you became a 'short timer' (20 days and a wakey) you delighted in sticking it up to the new arrivals.

2. (slang) Shortening of Wakefield

See also

• wakey wakey

Anagrams

• weaky

Meriam

Noun

wakey

1. thigh

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