Etymograph

English

sench

Sench comes from Old English senċan ‘[with accusative] to sink, to make sink, to…’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *sankwijaną.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*sankwijaną1‘to cause to sink’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*sankwijan2‘to cause to sink’reconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150senċan2‘[with accusative] to sink, to make sink, to cause to sink’
  4. Englishtodaysench2

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, Proto-West Germanic *sankwijan
  2. 2 Wiktionary, English sench

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*sankwijanąWiktionary, Proto-West Germanic *sankwijan‘to cause to sink’reconstructed
  2. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*sankwijanWiktionary, English sench‘to cause to sink’reconstructed
  3. Old Englishc. 450–1150senċanWiktionary, English sench‘[with accusative] to sink, to make sink, to cause to sink’
  4. EnglishtodaysenchWiktionary, English sench

Every English word from Proto-Germanic *sankwijaną

Today it means

verb To cause to sink.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “sench”; the older steps come from the Wiktionary entry for Proto-West Germanic *sankwijan. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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