tuken
Chuukese
Verb
tuken
- to swim
Middle English
Alternative forms
- tuk, tuke, tukke, tukken, tukki, tucken
- tuki, tukie, tuc, toke (Early Middle English, Southwestern, southwest Midlands)
Etymology
From Old English tucian (“to mistreat; to torment”) and Middle Dutch, Middle Low German tucken, all from Proto-Germanic *tukkōną (“to tug; to grab; to grasp”). Doublet of touchen.
Verb
tuken (third-person singular simple present tuks, present participle tukende, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle tukked)
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- “tū̆ken, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.