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wacken

adj

Etymology

From Middle English waken, from Old English wacen, ġewacen, from Proto-Germanic *wakanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *wakaną (“to wake, be awake, arise”), equivalent to wake + -en (past participle ending).

  1. derived from *wakaną✻ — “to wake, be awake, arise”
  2. inherited from *wakanaz✻
  3. inherited from wacen
  4. inherited from waken

Definitions

  1. Watchful.

  2. Lively

    Lively; sharp; wanton.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for wacken. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA