unken

Back-formation from unkenned, equivalent to un- +‎ ken.

• IPA^(key): /ʌnˈkɛn/

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unken (third-person singular simple present unkens, present participle unkenning, simple past and past participle unkenned)

1. (chiefly Scotland) To not know, fail to recognise, be ignorant of.

From German Unke.

• IPA^(key): /ˈʊŋkən/

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unken (not comparable)

1. Only used in unken reflex.

Unke +‎ -en

• IPA^(key): /ˈʊŋkn̩/

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unken (weak, third-person singular present unkt, past tense unkte, past participle geunkt, auxiliary haben)

1. to prophesy doom

   Synonyms: menetekeln, schwarzmalen

   • 2022 April 2, Klaus Walter, “Techno und Rauschzustände”, in Die Tageszeitung: taz‎, →ISSN, page 19:

     Viele hatten schon nicht mehr dran geglaubt. Und wer weiß, vielleicht kommt doch noch was dazwischen, wird hier und da geunkt.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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• “unken” in Duden online
• “unken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

unken

1. Romanization of 𒌺 (unken)

Uncertain. Proposals have been made connecting it with Proto-Indo-European *wegʷ- (“wet; moist”) (and thus Ancient Greek ὑγρός (hugrós) and Latin ūvidus), or with the Proto-Indo-European root behind Ancient Greek ἀδήν (adḗn) and Latin inguen.

unken (comparative unknare, superlative unknast)

1. musty, fusty, stale

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• unkenhet
• unkna

• unken in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• unken in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• unken in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• unken in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)
• Sven Ekbo, John Svensson, K.G. Ljunggren, Bertil Ejder, Bertil Björseth, Erik Abrahamson, Lennart Moberg, Axel Lindqvist (1952) Meijerbergs arkiv för svensk ordforskning‎, volume 8, Göteborg, page 101