waken

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈweɪkən/
• Rhymes: -eɪkən

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.
   • (Can we date this quote?) John Dryden

     Early, Turnus wakening with the light.

   • 1914, Louis Joseph Vance, chapter II, in Nobody, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, published 1915, OCLC 40817384:

     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.

• awaken

• Wanek, Wanke

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋaːkə(n)/
• Rhymes: -aːkən

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

waken

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

• bewaken
• ontwaken
• waakhond
• waakkat
• waakvlam

• wake
• wakker
• wekken

See the etymology of the main entry.

waken

1. Plural form of wake

From Old Dutch wacon, from Proto-Germanic *wakjaną.

wāken

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

• Dutch: waken
• Limburgish: wake

• “waken (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “waken (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

From Old English wacan, from Proto-Germanic *wakaną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwaːkən/

waken

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

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

• English: wake
• Scots: wake

From Old English wācian.

waken

1. Alternative form of woken