token
Middle English
noun
Definitions
- token
- omen, portent
- token
- prearranged signal
- token
- A flag, banner, standard associated with a person or event.
- model, example
- guarantee
- (astronomy) celestial body
- (astrology) astrological sign
Etymology
Inherited from Old English tācn (sign, marker, token) inherited from Proto-Germanic *taikną (token, sign, symbol).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*taikną
Gloss
token, sign, symbol
Concept
Semantic Field
Speech and language
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
🛑
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- betoken English
- foretoken English
- honeytoken English
- subtoken English
- token English
- tokeneth English
- tokening English
- tokenisation English
- tokenism English
- tokenist English
- tokenistic English
- tokenization English
- tokenize English
- tokenless English
- tokenlike English
- tokenwise English
- token Dutch, Flemish
- *deyǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *deyḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- *taikną Proto-Germanic
- トークン Japanese
- tacn Old English
- tācn Old English
- tācnian Old English
- toknen Middle English
- teikn Old Norse
- tákn Old Norse
- tache Old French
- zeihhan Old High German
- *taikn gmw-pro
- *tēkan Old Dutch
- *taika Proto-Finnic
- tēkan Old Saxon
- teken Old Frisian
- tēken Old Frisian