"teken" meaning in Middle Dutch

See teken in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: From Old Dutch *tēkan, from Proto-West Germanic *taikn. Etymology templates: {{dercat|dum|gem-pro|inh=1}}, {{inh|dum|odt|*tēkan}} Old Dutch *tēkan, {{inh|dum|gmw-pro|*taikn}} Proto-West Germanic *taikn Head templates: {{head|dum|noun||{{{stem}}}-||{{{stem2}}}-|cat2=|g=n|g2=f|g3=|head=têken|head2=|sort=}} têken n or f, {{dum-noun|n|g2=f|head=têken}} têken n or f Inflection templates: {{dum-decl-noun-st-n|têken}}, {{dum-decl-noun-st-f|têken}} Forms: têken [canonical, feminine, neuter], no-table-tags [table-tags], têken [nominative, singular], têken [nominative, plural], têkene [nominative, plural], têken [accusative, singular], têken [accusative, plural], têkene [accusative, plural], têkens [genitive, singular], têkene [genitive, plural], têkene [dative, singular], têkenen [dative, plural], no-table-tags [table-tags], têken [nominative, singular], têkene [nominative, plural], têken [accusative, singular], têkene [accusative, plural], têken [genitive, singular], têkene [genitive, singular], têkene [genitive, plural], têken [dative, singular], têkene [dative, singular], têkenen [dative, plural], teiken [alternative]
  1. mark, sign
    Sense id: en-teken-dum-noun-61csXPXT
  2. gesture
    Sense id: en-teken-dum-noun-axJDqJR~ Categories (other): Middle Dutch entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Middle Dutch entries with incorrect language header: 7 67 7 13 7
  3. signal
    Sense id: en-teken-dum-noun-0EGSTBWI
  4. sign, indication
    Sense id: en-teken-dum-noun-9gcBFyz3
  5. mark, wound
    Sense id: en-teken-dum-noun-DEeNCSK6
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: têkenen
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      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0 0",
      "word": "têkenen"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "descendants": [
        {
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          "lang_code": "af",
          "word": "teken"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Afrikaans",
          "lang_code": "af",
          "word": "teiken"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Berbice Creole Dutch",
          "lang_code": "brc",
          "word": "tegn"
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          "lang_code": "dcr",
          "word": "teken"
        },
        {
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            "borrowed"
          ],
          "word": "teken"
        }
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    },
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      "form": "teiken",
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}
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      "form": "têken",
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  "lang_code": "dum",
  "pos": "noun",
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        "mark, sign"
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        "signal"
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          "signal",
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        [
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          "wound"
        ]
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    }
  ],
  "word": "teken"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle Dutch dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-12-31 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-12-20 using wiktextract (e97c820 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.