Hook

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See also: hook and hòòk

English

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Etymology

Proper noun

Hook (countable and uncountable, plural Hooks)

  1. A surname.
  2. A number of places in the United Kingdom:
    1. A hamlet in Wimblington parish, Fenland district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TF4293).
    2. A hamlet in Chardstock parish, East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref ST3005).
    3. A village and civil parish near Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE7625).
    4. A suburb in the borough of Kingston upon Thames, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1865).
    5. A large village and civil parish in Hart district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7254).
    6. A hamlet in Fareham borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU5005).
    7. A hamlet in Timsbury parish, Bath and North East Somerset district, Somerset (OS grid ref ST6758).
    8. A village in Lydiard Tregoze parish, near Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0784).
    9. A village and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9711).
  3. A rural locality in South Canterbury, Canterbury, New Zealand, on the Hook River.

Translations

Statistics

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Hook is the 2680th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 13437 individuals. Hook is most common among White (90.12%) individuals.

See also

References

  1. ^ OS: Cambridgeshire
  2. ^ OS: Devon
  3. ^ Parish map (East Riding)
  4. ^ Parish map (Hampshire)
  5. ^ OS: Somerset
  6. ^ Community map (Pembrokeshire)
  7. ^ NZ Topo Map

Anagrams

German

Etymology

From Middle Low German hôk (“corner, angle”), from Old Saxon hōk, from Proto-West Germanic *hōk, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz. Compare the sense “small cluster of houses” in cognate Dutch hoek.

Pronunciation

Noun

Hook m (strong, genitive Hookes or Hooks, plural Höke)

  1. (regional, Westphalia, chiefly in toponyms) a small cluster of farms, often no more than three to five

Usage notes

  • The land shared by a Hook is typically called Esch.

Declension

Declension of Hook
singular plural
indef. def. noun def. noun
nominative ein der Hook die Höke
genitive eines des Hookes, Hooks der Höke
dative einem dem Hook, Hooke1 den Höken
accusative einen den Hook die Höke

1Now rare, see notes.

German Low German

Etymology

From Middle Low German hôk, from Old Saxon hōk, from Proto-West Germanic *hōk, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz. More at hook.

Noun

Hook m (plural Hoken)

  1. corner
  2. angle
  3. tip of land; headland; point; foreland
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