Etymology

ake

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Today it means: The groove made in a stone forming part of a killock. Full definition →

Middle English aken ← Old English acan ← Proto-West Germanic *akan
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ake · verb, noun1

  1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*akaną“to ache”
  2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*akan
  3. Old English · inherited fromacan“to ache”
  4. Middle English · inherited fromaken
  5. English todayake

From Middle English aken, from Old English acan (“to ache”), from Proto-West Germanic *akan, from Proto-Germanic *akaną (“to ache”). More at ache.

ake · adverb2

  1. Māori · borrowed fromake
  2. Māori · borrowed fromake
  3. English todayake

Borrowed from Māori ake.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishaken all →

ache

Old Englishacan all →

ache

Proto-West Germanic*akan all →

ache

Proto-Germanic*akaną all →

acheaik

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.