# waken
## English
### Etymology

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

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈweɪkən/
** Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪkən

### Verb

waken (third-person singular simple present wakens, present participle wakening, simple past and past participle wakened)
* (transitive) To wake or rouse from sleep.
* (intransitive) To awaken; to cease to sleep; to be awakened; to stir.
** 1697, Virgil, “The Ninth Book of the Æneis”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:Early, Turnus wakening with the light.
** 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter II (Burglary), page 378, column 1:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realizing that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky.

#### Related terms

* awaken

### Anagrams

* Wanek, Wanke

## Dutch
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈʋaːkə(n)/
* Rhymes: -aːkən
* Audio:(file)

### Etymology 1

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

#### Verb

waken
* (intransitive) to stay awake
* (intransitive) to watch, to be alert

##### Derived terms

* bewaken
* ontwaken
* waakhond
* waakkat
* waakvlam

##### Related terms

* wake
* wakker
* wekken

##### Descendants

* Negerhollands: waek
* → Papiamentu: wak, waak

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

waken
* plural of wake

## Middle Dutch
### Etymology

From Old Dutch wacon.

### Verb

wāken
* (intransitive) to wake, to be awake
* (intransitive) to not be or fall asleep, to stay awake
* (intransitive) to awaken, to wake up
* (transitive) to guard

#### Descendants

* Dutch: waken
* Limburgish: wake

### Further reading

* “waken (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
* Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “waken (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

## Middle English
### Etymology 1

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

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈwaːkən/

#### Verb

waken
* to wake, cease from sleep, to be awake
* to remain awake on watch (especially over a corpse)

##### Conjugation

| infinitive | (to) waken, wake | (to) waken, wake |
| | present tense | past tense |
| 1st-person singular | wake | wook |
| 2nd-person singular | wakest | woke, wook |
| 3rd-person singular | waketh | wook |
| subjunctive singular | wake | woke$^1$ |
| imperative singular | wake | — |
| plural$^2$ | waken, wake | woken, woke |
| imperative plural | waketh, wake | — |
| participles | wakynge, wakende | waken, wake |
$^1$Replaced by the indicative in later Middle English. $^2$Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

##### Related terms

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

##### Descendants

* English: wake
* Scots: wake

### Etymology 2

From Old English wācian.

#### Verb

waken
* Alternative form of woken