unken

== English == === Etymology 1 === Back-formation from unkenned, equivalent to un- +‎ ken. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ʌnˈkɛn/ ==== Verb ==== unken (third-person singular simple present unkens, present participle unkenning, simple past and past participle unkenned) (chiefly Scotland) To not know, fail to recognise, be ignorant of. === Etymology 2 === From German Unke. ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈʊŋkən/ ==== Adjective ==== unken (not comparable) Only used in unken reflex. == German == === Etymology === Unke +‎ -en === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈʊŋkən/, [ˈʊŋkn̩], [ˈʊŋkŋ̍] === Verb === unken (weak, third-person singular present unkt, past tense unkte, past participle geunkt, auxiliary haben) (somewhat derogatory, intransitive or transitive) [with subordinate clause or quote] to prophesy failure or doom Synonyms: menetekeln, schwarzmalen to say cynically, to whine ==== Conjugation ==== === Further reading === “unken” in Duden online “unken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache == North Frisian == === Pronoun === unken plural of unk (“ours, that of us two”) == Sumerian == === Romanization === unken romanization of 𒌺 (unken) == Swedish == === Etymology === 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. === Adjective === unken (comparative unknare, superlative unknast) musty, fusty, stale ==== Declension ==== ==== Derived terms ==== unkenhet unkna === References === 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[3], volume 8, Göteborg, page 101