húka

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Faroese[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse húka.

Verb[edit]

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

  1. to squat

Conjugation[edit]

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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse húka.

Pronunciation[edit]

Verb[edit]

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

  1. to crouch, squat

Conjugation[edit]

Old Norse[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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[edit]

húka

  1. to squat

Descendants[edit]

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

References[edit]

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