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): /sœːk/
• Rhymes: -œːk

Noun

sök f (genitive singular sakar, nominative plural sakir)

1. accusation
2. fault
3. (in the plural) affair, matter(s)
4. reason, cause

Declension

	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

Declension of sök (feminine)

Derived terms

• bera sakir á einhvern
• eiga sök á einhverju
• eins og nú standa sakir
• fara hægt í sakirnar
• fara vægt í sakirnar
• gefa einhverjum sakir á einhverju
• gefa einhverjum upp sakir
• gefa einhverjum upp sök
• koma ekki að sök
• svo sem sakir falla til
• sök mín er sú
• vera í sökum við einhvern
• verða sannur að sök
• verða sannur að sökum

See also

• sakleysi

Anagrams

• kös

Swedish

Verb

sök

1. 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 (nominative plural söks)

1. (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This older term has been replaced by the word näsäk (“insect”) (which ultimately derives from the Latin word īnsectum (“insect”), by way of the French phrase: "un insecte" [(œ̃ ).nɛ̃.sɛkt], which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
vocative 1	o sök!	o söks!
predicative 2	söku	sökus

¹ status as a case is disputed
² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms

• sökav (= näsäkav)
• sökavel (= näsäkavan)
• sökavik (= näsäkavik)
• sökik (= näsäkik)