waken

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | 237 words | Copyright

waken become awake; rouse from sleep. XII. — ON. vakna wake up = OE. wæcnan, also wæcnian (recorded only in the sense ‘rise, spring, be derived’), Goth. gawaknan (prp. only), f. Gmc. *wak-; see prec., -EN5.

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