See also: huka

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