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Esperanto
Etymology
From English hook, from Proto-Germanic *hakô (“hook”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hoko (accusative singular hokon, plural hokoj, accusative plural hokojn)
- hook
1910, L. L. Zamenhof, Proverbaro Esperanta:Por kapti ezokon, bongustigu la hokon.- To catch a pike, make right your hook.
- (orthography, colloquial) breve (hook-shaped diacritic visible in the Esperanto letter Ŭ ŭ)
- Synonym: hoketo
Derived terms
Japanese
Romanization
hoko
- Rōmaji transcription of ほこ
Lower Sorbian
Noun
hoko n inan
- 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
Norwegian Nynorsk
Noun
hoko f (definite singular hokoa)
- (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
- definite singular of hòku (non-standard since 1917)