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Swedish
Etymology
From Middle Low German hȫker (“peddler”), perhaps from Old High German huchan (“to crouch, sit bent forward”), from Proto-Germanic *hūkan- (“to squat”), from *hūkkan-, back-formed from the iterative *huk(k)ōn-, from Proto-Indo-European *kuk-néh₂, from *kewk- (“to curve, bend”) (also the source of English high).
Compare Danish høker, German Höker, English hawker. According to SO attested since 1640.
Noun
hökare c
- hawker (peddler, huckster)
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References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “hukan”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 252