sök

See also: Appendix:Variations of "sok"

Icelandic

Etymology

Derived from Old Norse sǫk, from Proto-Germanic *sakō. Cognate with Faroese søk, Norwegian Bokmål sak, Norwegian Nynorsk sak, Swedish sak, Danish sag, English sake, Dutch zaak, German Low German Saak, Sook, and German Sache.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈsœːk]
Rhymes: -œːk

Noun

sök f (genitive singular sakar, nominative plural sakir)

Declension

Declension of *sök* (feminine)
	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

Anagrams

kös

Swedish

Verb

sök

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 (“search”). See also webbsök (“web search”).

Anagrams

kös, öks

Volapük

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [søk]

Noun

sök (genitive söka, plural söks)

(obsolete) insect

Usage notes

This older term has been replaced by the word näsäk (“insect”) (which ultimately derives from the Latin word īnsectum (“insect”), by way of the French phrase: "un insecte" [(œ̃ ).nɛ̃.sɛkt], which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

Declension

Declension of *sök*
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	sök	söks
Genitive	söka	sökas
Dative	söke	sökes
Accusative	söki	sökis
Predicative¹	söku	sökus
Vocative	o sök	o söks

Introduced in Volapük Nulik.

Derived terms