hoko

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See also: hóko, hōkō, and hōko

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Etymology

From English hook, from Proto-Germanic *hakô (“hook”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”).

Pronunciation

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Noun

hoko (accusative singular hokon, plural hokoj, accusative plural hokojn)

  1. hook
    • 1910, L. L. Zamenhof, Proverbaro Esperanta:
      Por kapti ezokon, bongustigu la hokon.
      To catch a pike, make right your hook.
  2. (orthography, colloquial) breve (hook-shaped diacritic visible in the Esperanto letter Ŭ ŭ)
    Synonym: hoketo

Derived terms

Japanese

Romanization

hoko

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ほこ

Lower Sorbian

Noun

hoko n

  1. Obsolete spelling of woko.

References

  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “hoko”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008

Maori

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *soko₂ (“to exchange”); compare with Tahitian hoʻo (“to trade”) and Hawaiian hō (“to give, transfer, supply”)[1][2]

Verb

hoko

  1. to barter, exchange, trade
    hoko mai: to buy, to purchase
    hoko atu: to sell

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Tregear, Edward (1891) Maori-Polynesian Comparative Dictionary‎, Wellington, New Zealand: Lyon and Blair, pages 79-80
  2. ^ Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “soko.2”, in POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online

Further reading

  • “hoko” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

hoko f (definite singular hokoa)

  1. (dialectal) alternative form of hake
    • 1973, Alf Prøysen, Onger er rare [Childs are Weird], Oslo: Tiden, page 192:
      Opp med hokoa, Sverre!
      Up with your chin, Sverre!

Noun

hòko f

  1. definite singular of hòku (non-standard since 1917)

Yanomam

Noun

hoko (clitic meronym; singulative hoko, dual hokokipë, definite plural hokokɨ, indefinite plural hokopë)

  1. forehead

References

  • Perri Ferreira, Helder (2017) Yanomama Clause Structure‎, volume 1, Utrecht: LOT, →ISBN, page 116
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