wekken

Meaning

  1. (transitive) to wake, to wake up
  2. (transitive) to cause, to elicit (particularly of certain emotions)

Frequency

C1
Hyphenated as
wek‧ken
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈʋɛ.kə(n)/
Etymology

From Middle Dutch wecken, from Old Dutch wecken, from Proto-West Germanic *wakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *wakjaną.

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