sakk (intransitive)

1. sank, past of søkka (to sink)

• skipið sakk - the ship sank

• søkk

Borrowed from German Schach, from Arabic شَاه (šāh), from Persian شاه (šâh). Doublet of sah.

• IPA^(key): [ˈʃɒkː]
• Hyphenation: sakk
• Rhymes: -ɒkː

sakk (plural sakkok)

1. chess
2. check (a situation in which the king is directly threatened by enemy pieces)

• hexasakk (“hexagonal chess”)

• sakk in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

• IPA^(key): /sak/
• Rhymes: -ak

sakk m (plural sakki)

1. alternative form of sakkeġġ

sakk

1. imperative of sakke

• kaks, kask, skak

Arises from sak by duplication of the /k/ by assimilation of the following consonant in a form that does not reveal whether the duplicate is part of the root.

sakk

1. to be able

From Proto-Samic *sākë.

sakk

1. message

• Eino Koponen, Klaas Ruppel, Kirsti Aapala, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland