húka

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See also: huka

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse húka.

Verb

húka (third person singular past indicative heyk, third person plural past indicative huku, supine hokið)

  1. to squat

Conjugation

Conjugation of húka (group v-40)
infinitive húka
supine hokið
participle (a26)1 húkandi hokin
present past
first singular húki heyk
second singular hýkur heykst
third singular hýkur heyk
plural húka huku
imperative
singular húk!
plural húkið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse húka.

Pronunciation

Verb

húka (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative húkti, supine húkt)

  1. to crouch, squat

Conjugation

Old Norse

Etymology

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).[1]

Related to Middle Low German hûken, Old High German hūchan (> German hocken), Dutch huiken. Also compare English hook.

Verb

húka

  1. to squat

Descendants

  • Danish: huge
  • Faroese: húka
  • Icelandic: húka
  • Norwegian (Bokmål): huke
  • Norwegian (Nynorsk): huka, huke
  • Swedish: huka

References

  1. ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “hukan”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 252