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Danish
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).
The Low German word was also borrowed to Norwegian høker, Swedish hökare, German Höker, Dutch heuker (dialect) and English hawker. Middle Low German also has the noun hōke (“peddler”) and the verb hōken (“to peddle”).
Pronunciation
Noun
høker c (singular definite høkeren, plural indefinite høkere)
- (historical) peddler (itinerant merchant)
Declension
Derived terms
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “hukan”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 252
Old Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse haukr, from Proto-Germanic *habukaz.
Noun
hø̄ker m
- hawk
Declension
Declension of høker (strong a-stem)
Descendants