tecken

“tecken” is a Swedish word. Its 5 meanings in English:

noun

A visible indication; a sign.
A meaningful gesture
A symbol, for example a letter of the alphabet or a more specialized sign.
sign (plus or minus)
A unit in the sign language, corresponding to a word in spoken language.

Etymology

From Old Norse teikn, from Proto-Germanic *taikną, cognate with English token and German Zeichen. The noun is derived from the verb *tīhaną (“to show, accuse”) (cf. Danish te (“to behave”), German zeihen (“to accuse”)).

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