souken

Middle English[edit]

souken

To suck (to draw with the mouth):
1. To breastfeed (of an infant)
2. To milk (extract milk from breasts or udders)
3. To suck out liquid or fluid
4. To drink liquid (such as blood, honey)
To extract or draw (move to a given location)
To remove (especially by absorbing or sucking)
To take money or finances (especially when using up money)

This verb tends to become weak in later Middle English.

Conjugation of souken (strong class 2 or weak in -ed)

infinitive	(to) souken, souke
	present tense	past tense
1st-person singular	souke	sek, sok, souked
2nd-person singular	soukest	soke, sek, sok, soukedest
3rd-person singular	souketh	sek, sok, souked
subjunctive singular	souke	soke¹, souked¹
imperative singular	souke	—

plural²	souken, souke	soken, soke, soukeden, soukede
imperative plural	souketh, souke	—

participles	soukynge, soukende	soken, soke, souked, ysoken, ysoke, ysouked

¹Replaced by the indicative in later Middle English.
²Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

“sǒuken, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-10-22.