hink
See also: Hink
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hink (plural hinks)
- (obsolete) A reaping hook.
See also edit
- hink pink (etymologically unrelated)
References edit
- Edward H[enry] Knight (1877), “Hink”, in Knight’s American Mechanical Dictionary. […], volume II (GAS–REA), New York, N.Y.: Hurd and Houghton […], →OCLC.
- “hink”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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hink
- inflection of hinken:
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hink
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hink
References edit
- Charles Wellington Furlong, The Haush And Ona, Primitive Tribes Of Tierra Del Fuego, in the Proceedings Of The Nineteenth International Congress Of Americanists (December 1915)
- Voces en el viento: raíces lingüísticas de la Patagonia : lingüística comparativa de las lenguas aborígenes del sur del continente americano (2005): genk'e-nK 'paisano', es un derivado de un término de significado 'hombre', sólo mantenido en haush (Bridges 1948 ‹hink›, Tonelli ‹enk› 'hombre')
Scots edit
Etymology 1 edit
Variant of think. From Middle English thinken, thynken, thenken, thenchen, from Old English þencan, þenċan, þenċean (“to think”), from Proto-Germanic *þankijaną (“to think, suppose, perceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think, feel, know”).
Verb edit
hink (third-person singular simple present hinks, present participle hinkin, simple past thought or thocht, past participle thought or thocht)
- (many Scots dialects) to think.
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English *hinken, from Old English hincian (“to limp, halt, hobble”), from Proto-Germanic *hinkaną (“to limp, hobble, be injured”).
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hink
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hink c
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Nominative | hink | hinken | hinkar | hinkarna |
Genitive | hinks | hinkens | hinkars | hinkarnas |