wake, vigil · watch, sentry, guard duty · watch, guard (group of people perfoming such duty)
çekim: çoğul Wachen · tamlayan Wachen
eş: Wachfrau, Wachmann, Wächter, Wächterin
köken: From Middle High German wache, from Old High German wacha, from Proto-West Germanic *waku. Cognate with Middle Dutch and Middle Low German wāke, English wake.
köken: From guardare, of Germanic origin, possibly corresponding to Frankish *warda or Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐍂𐌳𐌾𐌰 (wardja), all ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to watch, notice, give heed”). Compare French garde, Spanish guarda.
aile: cambio della guardia, guardia del corpo, guardia medica, guardia svizzera, guardiano, montare la guardia
Una sola guardia guarda, sanza muoversi, tutto il castello di dentro e di fori, la quale si de’ scambiare ogni tre ore.
watch (duty period or the team working it) · shift (work period or the team working it)
çekim: çoğul βάρδιες · tamlayan βάρδιας
köken: From Venetan vardia, from Old High German warta, from Proto-Germanic *warþō, an extension of a stem-verb *warōną (“be on guard”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer-.
lookout (keeping a lookout, for enemies or other things of interest) · being on the lookout, keeping an eye out · lookout (a person who keeps a lookout, for example, at sea)
çekim: çoğul utkikar · tamlayan utkiks
köken: From ut (“out”) + kika (“look”).
aile: utkikstorn
hålla utkik efter isberg
Nisse höll utkik efter polisen medan de andra rånade juvelerarbutiken
guard, watch (the act of guarding) · duty · guard (a person guarding)
çekim: çoğul vagter · tamlayan vagts
köken: From Middle Low German wacht, wachte, from Proto-Germanic *wahtwō, cognate with German Wacht. Norwegian vakt and Swedish vakt are also borrowed from Low German.
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese vigiar (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), a semi-learned term derived from Latin vigilare. Doublet of velar. Cognate with Portuguese vigiar, Spanish vigilar.
köken: Learned borrowing from Old Armenian պահակ (pahak), from Parthian [script needed] (pḥrg /pahrag/, “watch-post”). Compare Classical Persian پَهْرَه (pahra, “watch, guard”)