maken

From Middle English maken, equivalent to make +‎ -en.

• Rhymes: -eɪkən

maken

1. (obsolete) plural simple present form of make
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte d'Arthur, Book XXI:

     & somme englysshe bookes maken mencyon that they wente neuer oute of englond after the deth of syr Launcelot / but that was but fauour of makers

   • 1579, Edmund Spenser, The Shepheardes Calender

     They maken many a wrong chevisaunce,

   • 1606, Nathaniel Baxter, Sir Philip Sydneys Ourania, that is, Endimions Song and Tragedie, containing all Philosophie

     All these Starres maken one hundred and eight,

     Bright and conspicuous without deceite.

• Ekman, Kamen, Manke

From Middle Dutch maken, from Old Dutch macon, from Proto-Germanic *makōną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaːkə(n)/
• Rhymes: -aːkən

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• Hyphenation: ma‧ken

maken

1. (transitive) to make
2. (transitive) to fix, to repair, to mend
3. (transitive) to take (a photo)

• aanmaken
• afmaken
• bekendmaken
• buitmaken
• losmaken
• overmaken
• vastmaken
• vrijmaken
• handgemaakt

• Afrikaans: maak

maken

1. Rōmaji transcription of まけん

maken

1. woman

   Yikn ka maken wurun-el.

   You are a woman from the bush.

• Henry, Joan. Kombio Grammar Essentials. Ms. 123pp. (1992).

From Middle Low German maken, from Old Saxon makōn, from Proto-Germanic *makōną. Cognate with Saterland Frisian moakje (“to make”), West Frisian meitsje (“to make”), Dutch maken (“to make”), English make and German machen (“to make, do”). See also Plautdietsch moaken (diphthongization before velar).

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaː.kə(n)/, /ˈmæː.kə(n)/, /ˈmɑː.kə(n)/, /ˈmɒː.kə(n)/ Either the /ə/ or the /n/ may be dropped
• (Dialects with merger of /ɒː/ and /ɔʊ̯/) IPA^(key): /ˈmɔʊ̯.kə(n)/
• Hyphenation: ma‧ken

maken (past singular möök or makt, past participle makt or maakt, auxiliary verb hebben)

1. To make.

• plattmaakt

From Old Dutch macon, from Proto-Germanic *makōną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaːkən/

māken

1. to make
2. to make, to cause to be
   • 1249, Schepenbrief van Bochoute, Velzeke, eastern Flanders:

     Si maken bekent die nu sien ende wesen selen

     They make known to those who are now and will be

• Dutch: maken
  • Afrikaans: maak
• Limburgish: make
• → Picard Old French: makier, maquier
  • → Middle French: maquier, macquiller
    • French: maquiller
      • → Dutch: maquilleren

• “maken (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “maken”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

• (Early ME) makien, macen, makie, makiȝen, makyȝe, macen, macian, makian, machiæ
• makyn, make, makye, makiȝe, mak, macke, maki

From Old English macian, from Proto-Germanic *makōną.

• IPA^(key): /ˈmaːkən/, /ˈmakən/

maken

1. To make or create; to have something made.
   • 14th c. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales. General Prologue: 9-11.

     And smale foweles maken melodye,

     That slepen al the nyght with open eye-

     (So priketh hem Nature in hir corages);

• English: make
• Scots: mak

• “māken (v.(1))” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-12.

maken m

1. definite singular of make

maken m

1. definite singular of make

maken

1. definite singular of make