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מעקן
‘to erase’

מעקן
געמעקט
'to erase'

ETYMOLOGY

Hebrew מחק. The ח was lost either because the word is a relic of the Bney-Hes (the Jews of medieval Western Germany who pronounced ח as /h/), or due to assimilation of the /x/ to the following velar plosive /k/.