The story
- Proto-Germanic · derived from*wakaną“to wake, be awake, arise”
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*wakanaz
- Old English · inherited fromwacen
- Middle English · inherited fromwaken
- English todaywacken
From Middle English waken, from Old English wacen, ġewacen, from Proto-Germanic *wakanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *wakaną (“to wake, be awake, arise”), equivalent to wake + -en (past participle ending).
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishwaken all →
wake
Proto-Germanic*wakaną all →
wake
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.