taken
Middle English
verb
Definitions
- to take
Etymology
Inherited from Old English tacan (touch, grasp) derived from Old Norse taka (take, touch, grasp, receiving, taking) derived from Proto-Germanic *tēkaną (touch, grasp, take).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*tēkaną
Gloss
touch, grasp, take
Concept
Semantic Field
Sense perception
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- betake English
- caretake English
- entertake English
- foretake English
- foretaken English
- fortake English
- intake English
- mistake English
- offtake English
- ontake English
- outtake English
- overtake English
- retake English
- stocktake English
- take English
- takeable English
- takeaway English
- taken English
- takeover English
- taker English
- takest English
- undertake English
- untaken English
- uptake English
- wapentake English
- withtake English
- wrongtake English
- teikata Finnish
- *deh₁g- Proto-Indo-European
- ta Norwegian Bokmål
- *tēkanaz Proto-Germanic
- *tēkaną Proto-Germanic
- ta Norwegian Nynorsk
- tacan Old English
- tacen Old English
- arftaka Old Norse
- arftakari Old Norse
- arftaki Old Norse
- aurataka Old Norse
- taka Old Norse
- tekinn Old Norse
- tekt Old Norse
- yfirtaka Old Norse
- taka Icelandic
- taka Faroese
- 𐍄𐌴𐌺𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- taka Old Swedish
- taga Westrobothnian
- tak Scots
- taghæ, takæ Old Danish
- undtagæ Old Danish
- teki Sranan Tongo
- tek Jamaican Creole
- tak sco-osc