sænke
Danish
/sɛnkə/
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) to lower, to reduce
- (transitive) to sink a ship
- (reflexive) to fall, descend
Etymology
Inherited from Old Danish sænckæ inherited from Old Norse *sænkja q, søkkva (east skkva q, west) inherited from Proto-Germanic *sankwijaną, *sinkwaną (sink).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*sinkwaną
Gloss
sink
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Senkkasten German
- Senkung German
- absenken German
- senken German
- senkrecht German
- sinken German
- *sengʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- *sankwijaną Proto-Germanic
- *sinkwaną Proto-Germanic
- sencan Old English
- sincan Old English
- *sinkwa q, søkkva Old Norse
- *sænkja q, søkkva Old Norse
- *sønkja Old Norse
- sænkva Old Norse
- søkkva Old Norse
- synke Danish
- sinkan Old High German
- 𐍃𐌹𐌲𐌵𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *senken Old Dutch
- *sincan Old Dutch
- senkian Old Saxon
- sinkan Old Saxon
- sinka Old Frisian
- siunkæ Old Danish
- sænckæ Old Danish