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seek

Sätze
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Some   factions   favour   a
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  separate   state   while   others   seek
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  regional   autonomy .

Einige Fraktionen bevorzugen einen separaten Staat, während andere eine regionale Autonomie suchen.

Bedeutung (Englisch)

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B2
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/siːk/
Etymologie (Englisch)

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 Saterland Frisian säike (“to seek”), West Frisian sykje (“to seek”), Dutch zoeken (“to seek”), Low German söken (“to seek”), German suchen (“to seek”), Danish søge (“to seek”), Swedish söka, Norwegian Bokmål søke (“to seek”), Norwegian Nynorsk søkja (“to seek”), Icelandic sækja (“to seek”). 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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