Infinitive
Participles
| Present | ransakende; ransakynge |
| Past | ransaked |
Indicative
Past
| 1st sing. | ransaked |
| 3rd sing. | ransaked |
Imperative
Verbs conjugated like ransaken
sacren,
sownen,
skapen,
behoven,
devysen,
bicaren,
totorven,
preferren,
adweschen,
skleren,
grinten,
disporten,
amenusen,
glisteren,
glenten,
consecraten,
forslouthen,
umbeloken,
ransaken,
withslippen, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Norse rannsaka (“to search a house (especially for stolen goods)”), from rann (“house”) (from Proto-Germanic *razną (“dwelling, house”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“lonesome; quiet; to rest”)) + saka, an ablaut variant of sœkja, sǿkja (“to look for, search, seek”) (from Proto-Germanic *sōkijaną (“to look for, seek”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (“to follow; to seek out, trace”)). See: Proto-Germanic '
*sōkijaną'.
Verbs referencing "ransaken"
English
ramshackle, English
ransack, Cebuano ransak.
Sample Sentences
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Thenne came there an olde monke whiche somtyme had ben a knyghte & behelde syre Melyas / And anone he ransakyd hym / & thenne he saide vnto syr Galahad I shal hele hym of this woūde by the grace of god within the terme of seuen wekes [1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xiij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book XIII:]
Cognates
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