vaka
Swedish
verb-reg
Definitions
- to wake; to keep watch, such as over a corpse
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish vaka inherited from Old Norse vaka (vigil, watch, wake) inherited from Proto-Germanic *wakāną (be awake, watch, wake).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*wakāną
Gloss
be awake, watch, wake
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- vakoilla Finnish
- *kret- Proto-Indo-European
- *weǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *wakāną Proto-Germanic
- bevaka Swedish
- bevakning Swedish
- övervaka Swedish
- övervakning Swedish
- vaka Norwegian Nynorsk
- vake Norwegian Nynorsk
- wacian Old English
- Bjarnvarðr, bjarnvards Old Norse
- vaka Old Norse
- wahhen Old High German
- wahhēn Old High German
- vøka Faroese
- wacon Old Dutch
- bevaka Old Swedish
- vaka Old Swedish
- vaka Westrobothnian
- wakia Old Frisian
- vaga Scanian