huke
English
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Old French huque, from Latin huca. See Dutch huik (“sleeveless cape”).
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /h(j)uːk/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -uːk
Noun
edithuke (plural hukes)
- (historical) An outer garment (robe or cloak) worn by men and women in Europe in the Middle Ages, either as civilian clothing or over armor.
- 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “(please specify the page, or |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- there came one that seemed to be a messenger , in a rich huke
- 1930, “The real Joan of Arc: a manly maid - her appearance, her dress, her armour”, in The Illustrated London News:
- Her only extravagances were fine accoutrements, gorgeous hukes, and mighty war-horses.
- 1980, A. Ernestine Jones, The Trial of Joan of Arc:
- Judging from the surviving documents it would appear that Charles VII did nothing at all about Joan of Arc [...] but [she] also swore that she herself was often visited by God, dressed in a white robe with a scarlet huke over it.
- 2015 March 12, Phyllis G. Tortora, Sara B. Marcketti, Survey of Historic Costume, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 173:
- […] but after this date “white” armor, or highly polished metal armor, was rarely covered except by a tabard or huke […]
Translations
editFurther reading
edit- “huke”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams
editBasque
editPronunciation
edit- IPA(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /huke/ [hu.ke]
- IPA(key): (Southern) /uke/ [u.ke]
- Rhymes: -uke
- Hyphenation: hu‧ke
Verb
edithuke
- Informal second-person singular (hik), taking third-person singular (hura) as direct object, hypothetic consequential indicative form of izan.
Usage notes
editLinguistically, this verb form can be seen as belonging to the reconstructed citation form edun instead of izan.
Norwegian Bokmål
editEtymology 1
editFrom the noun huk.
Verb
edithuke (imperative huk, present tense huker, passive hukes, simple past huka or huket or hukte, past participle huka or huket or hukt, present participle hukende)
Etymology 2
editVerb
edithuke (imperative huk, present tense huker, passive hukes, simple past huka or huket or hukte, past participle huka or huket or hukt, present participle hukende)
References
editNorwegian Nynorsk
editAlternative forms
editEtymology 1
editFrom the noun huk.
Verb
edithuke (present tense hukar, past tense huka, past participle huka, passive infinitive hukast, present participle hukande, imperative huke/huk)
Etymology 2
editVerb
edithuke (present tense huker, past tense hukte, past participle hukt, passive infinitive hukast, present participle hukande, imperative huk)
References
edit- “huke” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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