seek
Betekenis (English)
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- To try to find; to look for; to search for.
- To ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
- To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
- (obsolete) To go, move, travel (in a given direction).
- To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
- To attempt, endeavour, try
- To navigate through a stream.
Synonyms
search for
hunt for
be after
seek for
look closely
apply for
look out for
search after
try to find
find a solution
Hakea
look about for
quest after
quest for
courtship
seek after
seek to get
self-guidance
stand as a candidate for
strive for
self-aiming
come at
be curious
beg for
hanker after
beat about
hunt up
look about
look around for
press for
aspire to
shoot for
try for
wish for
aspiring to
focus on
Frekwensie
Uitgespreek as (IPA)
/siːk/
Etimologie (English)
In summary
From Middle English seken (also sechen, whence dialectal English seech), from Old English sēċan (compare beseech); from Proto-West Germanic *sōkijan, from Proto-Germanic *sōkijaną (“to seek”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (“to seek out”). Cognate with West Frisian sykje, Dutch zoeken, Low German söken, German suchen, Danish søge, Icelandic sækja, Norwegian Bokmål søke, Norwegian Nynorsk søkja, Swedish söka. The Middle English and later Modern English hard /k/ derives from Old English sēcð, the third person singular; the forms with /k/ were then reinforced by cognate Old Norse sǿkja.
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