English
wake
A merger of two verbs of related/similar form and meaning: * Middle English waken, Old English wacan, from Proto-West Germanic *wakan, from Proto-Germanic *wakaną.
Another origin of wake
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*wakōreconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150wacu‘wake, watch’
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500wake‘sleeplessness, wakefulness’
- Englishtodaysame form
Another origin of wake
- Middle Dutchc. 1150–1500wakeuncertain
- Englishtodaysame form
Today it means
verb (often followed by up) To stop sleeping.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / wake