sök

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sok"

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse sǫk, from Proto-Germanic *sakō. Cognate with Faroese søk, Norwegian and Swedish sak, Danish sag, English sake, Dutch zaak, German Sache.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sœːk/
  • Rhymes: -œːk

Noun

sök f (genitive singular sakar, nominative plural sakir)

  1. accusation
  2. fault
  3. (in the plural) affair, matter(s)
  4. reason, cause

Declension
declension of sök
f-s2 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative sök sökin sakir sakirnar
accusative sök sökina sakir sakirnar
dative sök sökinni sökum sökunum
genitive sakar sakarinnar saka sakanna

Derived terms
Derived terms
  • bera sakir á einhvern
  • eiga sök á einhverju
  • eins og nú standa sakir
  • fara hægt í sakirnar
  • fara vægt í sakirnar
  • gefa einhverjum sakir á einhverju
  • gefa einhverjum upp sakir
  • gefa einhverjum upp sök
  • koma ekki að sök
  • sök mín er sú
  • svo sem sakir falla til
  • vera í sökum við einhvern
  • verða sannur að sök
  • verða sannur að sökum

See also

Anagrams

Swedish

Verb

sök

  1. imperative of söka

Usage notes
  • The short and catchy sök is used on search buttons of computer applications and websites. It is also colloquially used as a shorthand for the associated noun sökning (“a search”). See also webbsök (“web search”).

Anagrams

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from English insect ("-sec-" [sɛk] changed to "sök" [søk]).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [søk]

Noun

sök (nominative plural söks)

  1. (obsolete) insect

Usage notes

This older term has been replaced by the word näsäk (“insect”) (which ultimately derives from the Latin word insectum "insect", by way of the French phrase: "un insecte" [(œ̃ ).nɛ̃.sɛkt], which was transformed to [nɛ.ˈsɛk] and respelled as "näsäk").

Declension
declension of sök
singular plural
nominative sök söks
genitive söka sökas
dative söke sökes
accusative söki sökis
vocative 1 o sök! o söks!
predicative 2 söku sökus
  • 1 status as a case is disputed
  • 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms
  • sökav (= näsäkav)
  • sökavel (= näsäkavan)
  • sökavik (= näsäkavik)
  • sökik (= näsäkik)
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