waker

Meanings

Adjective

• Watchful; vigilant; alert.

Noun

• One who wakens or arouses from sleep.
• One who wakes somebody or something.

Origin

• From Middle English wakyr, from Old English wacor, waccor, from Proto-Germanic *wakraz ("awake, watchful"), equivalent to wake + -er. Cognate with Scots wakir ("watchful"), Dutch wakker ("awake"), German wacker ("awake, alert, capable, brave"), Swedish vacker ("wakeful, watchful, fair, comely").
• From Middle English wakere, equivalent to wake + -er. Compare West Frisian wekker, Dutch wekker, German Wecker, Danish vækkeur.