wake

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English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US) IPA^(key): /weɪk/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /weːk/
• Homophone: Wake
• Rhymes: -eɪk

Etymology 1

A merger of two verbs of similar form and meaning:

• Middle English waken, Old English wacan, from Proto-West Germanic *wakan, from Proto-Germanic *wakaną.
• Middle English wakien, Old English wacian, from Proto-West Germanic *wakēn, from Proto-Germanic *wakāną.

Verb

wake (third-person singular simple present wakes, present participle waking, simple past woke or waked, past participle woken or waked or (now colloquial) woke)

1. (intransitive) (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
2. (transitive) (often followed by up) To make somebody stop sleeping; to rouse from sleep.
3. (transitive, figurative) To put in motion or action; to arouse; to excite.
4. (intransitive, figurative) To be excited or roused up; to be stirred up from a dormant, torpid, or inactive state; to be active.
5. To watch, or sit up with, at night, as a dead body.
6. To be or remain awake; not to sleep.
   • , Book II, Chapter I

     I cannot think any time, waking or sleeping, without being sensible of it.

7. (obsolete) To be alert; to keep watch

8. (obsolete) To sit up late for festive purposes; to hold a night revel.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Related terms

• wacken

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English wake, from Old English wacu, from Proto-Germanic *wakō, related to the verb *wakjaną.

Noun

wake (plural wakes)

1. (often obsolete or poetic) The act of waking, or state of being awake.
2. The state of forbearing sleep, especially for solemn or festive purposes; a vigil.
3. A period after a person's death before or after the body is buried, cremated, etc.; in some cultures accompanied by a party and/or collectively sorting through the deceased's personal effects.
   • 2003, Section 14(1)(a), Infectious Diseases Act (Cap. 137, R. Ed. 2003)

     Where any person has died whilst being, or suspected of being, a case or carrier or contact of an infectious disease, the Director may by order prohibit the conduct of a wake over the body of that person or impose such conditions as he thinks fit on the conduct of such wake […]

4. (historical, Church of England) A yearly parish festival formerly held in commemoration of the dedication of a church. Originally, prayers were said on the evening preceding, and hymns were sung during the night, in the church; subsequently, these vigils were discontinued, and the day itself, often with succeeding days, was occupied in rural pastimes and exercises, attended by eating and drinking.
   • 1523–1525, Jean Froissart, John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners (translator), Froissart's Chronicles

     Great solemnities were made in all churches, and great fairs and wakes throughout all England.
5. A number of vultures assembled together.

Synonyms

• death watch, funeral wake

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• arval, arvel
• shiva, shivah

Etymology 3

Probably from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch wake, from or akin to Old Norse vǫk (“a hole in the ice”) ( > Danish våge, Icelandic vök), from Proto-Germanic *wakwō (“wetness”), from Proto-Indo-European *wegʷ- (“moist, wet”).

Noun

wake (plural wakes)

1. (nautical) The path left behind a ship on the surface of the water.
2. The movement of water created when an animal or a person moves through water.
3. (aviation) The turbulent air left behind a flying aircraft.
4. (figuratively) The area behind something, typically a rapidly-moving object.

Derived terms

• Kelvin wake pattern
• wakeboarding
• wake flow
• wake loss
• wakeskater
• wakeskating
• wake turbulence
• wake vortex

Related terms

• wait
• watch

Translations

See also

• in the wake of
• wakes

Anagrams

• weak, weka

Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *waka, from Proto-Germanic *wakō, related to the verb *wakjaną.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋaː.kə/

Noun

wake f (plural waken)

1. a wake (a gathering to remember a dead person)

Derived terms

• paaswake

Verb

wake

1. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive of waken

Japanese

Romanization

wake

1. Rōmaji transcription of わけ

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English wacu, from Proto-Germanic *wakō, related to the verb *wakjaną.

Alternative forms

• wak, woke, quake

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwaːk(ə)/

Noun

wake (plural wakes)

1. sleeplessness, wakefulness
2. vigil
3. festival, celebration

Descendants

• English: wake
• Yola: wake

References

• “wāke, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Adjective

wake

1. Alternative form of woke

Swahili

Pronunciation

Noun

wake

1. plural of mke

Adjective

wake

1. M class inflected form of -ake.
2. U class inflected form of -ake.
3. Wa class inflected form of -ake.

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From Meriam wakey.

Noun

wake

1. (eastern dialect) thigh, upper leg

Synonyms

• dokap (western dialect)

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English wake, from Old English wacu.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɔːk/

Noun

wake

1. consequence

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 116