waken

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waken
Panel from the Wug Test, reading: "This is a wug. Now there is another one. There are two of them. There are two [blank]."
Pronunciation	/ˈwa.ken/
Usage	2023: Not notable (0% → ) Most speakers don't understand this word.2022: Obscure (0%)
Book and era	No book
Part of speech	Content word

waken is a marginal joke content word. It is a reference to the Wug Test, an well-known experiment in linguistics, in which children were prompted to inflect nonsense words (such as the plural of "wug") to test whether they memorize these forms individually or extract patterns to apply generally.

Etymology

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The word waken seems to be derived from wuggen, a nonstandard plural of wug on the model of oxen. A multisyllabic form may have been used to tokiponize all segments in the word wug and avoid collision with wa.

Semantic space

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sitelen pona

The sitelen pona glyph for waken (wakenwaken) depicts a "wug" as drawn in the Wug Test.

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