awake

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   Not sleeping.

   The noise kept me awake all night.

2. 2
   verb

   To stop sleeping, or to make someone stop sleeping.

   I awoke early to the sound of birds singing.

3. 3
   adj

   Aware of something and ready to deal with it.

   They were awake to the danger of falling sales.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ud-s-? Proto-Indo-European *h₂u-s-? Proto-Germanic *uz- Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- Old English ar- Old English ā- Proto-Indo-European *weǵ-der. Proto-Germanic *wakaną Proto-West Germanic *wakan Old English wacan Old English āwacan Middle English awaken Middle English awake English awake From Middle English awake, a shortened form of awaken (“awakened, awake”), past participle of Middle English awaken (“to awaken”). See verb below. Compare Saterland Frisian woak (“awake”), German Low German waak (“awake”), German wach (“awake”).

Topics