Basque

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /hika/ [hi.ka]
  • IPA(key): (Southern) /ika/ [i.ka]
  • Rhymes: -ika, -a
  • Hyphenation: hi‧ka

Etymology 1

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Unknown.

Noun

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hika inan

  1. muddy area, mire
    Synonym: lokatz
Declension
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Declension of hika (inanimate, ending in -a)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive hika hika hikak
ergative hikak hikak hikek
dative hikari hikari hikei
genitive hikaren hikaren hiken
comitative hikarekin hikarekin hikekin
causative hikarengatik hikarengatik hikengatik
benefactive hikarentzat hikarentzat hikentzat
instrumental hikaz hikaz hikez
inessive hikatan hikan hiketan
locative hikatako hikako hiketako
allative hikatara hikara hiketara
terminative hikataraino hikaraino hiketaraino
directive hikatarantz hikarantz hiketarantz
destinative hikatarako hikarako hiketarako
ablative hikatatik hikatik hiketatik
partitive hikarik
prolative hikatzat

Etymology 2

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From hi (you, informal second person singular pronoun) +‎ -ka.

Noun

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hika inan

  1. a mode of address using the pronoun hi
    Synonym: hitano
Usage notes
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This mode of address is primarily used between children, siblings, and people who have been friends since childhood. When addressing someone using this pronoun, all verb forms must be in allocutive agreement. For examples see hi.

Declension
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Declension of hika (inanimate, ending in -a)
indefinite singular plural
absolutive hika hika hikak
ergative hikak hikak hikek
dative hikari hikari hikei
genitive hikaren hikaren hiken
comitative hikarekin hikarekin hikekin
causative hikarengatik hikarengatik hikengatik
benefactive hikarentzat hikarentzat hikentzat
instrumental hikaz hikaz hikez
inessive hikatan hikan hiketan
locative hikatako hikako hiketako
allative hikatara hikara hiketara
terminative hikataraino hikaraino hiketaraino
directive hikatarantz hikarantz hiketarantz
destinative hikatarako hikarako hiketarako
ablative hikatatik hikatik hiketatik
partitive hikarik
prolative hikatzat
Derived terms
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Further reading

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  • hika”, in Euskaltzaindiaren Hiztegia [Dictionary of the Basque Academy] (in Basque), Euskaltzaindia [Royal Academy of the Basque Language]
  • hika”, in Orotariko Euskal Hiztegia [General Basque Dictionary], Euskaltzaindia, 1987–2005

Chickasaw

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A bilingual stop sign.

Etymology

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From the same root as hili, suffixed with -ka.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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hika

  1. (active voice, intransitive) to stop, to cease, to halt
  2. (active voice, intransitive) to stand up, to rise (punctually)
  3. (active voice, transitive, nominal object) to stop in, to stop at

Inflection

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Derived terms

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Interjection

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hika

  1. whoa

Icelandic

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Etymology

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Related to huka (to cower, squat), hokra (to creep), all from Old Norse haukr.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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hika (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative hikaði, supine hikað)

  1. to hesitate

Conjugation

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hika – active voice (germynd)
infinitive nafnháttur hika
supine sagnbót hikað
present participle
hikandi
indicative
subjunctive
present
past
present
past
singular ég hika hikaði hiki hikaði
þú hikar hikaðir hikir hikaðir
hann, hún, það hikar hikaði hiki hikaði
plural við hikum hikuðum hikum hikuðum
þið hikið hikuðuð hikið hikuðuð
þeir, þær, þau hika hikuðu hiki hikuðu
imperative boðháttur
singular þú hika (þú), hikaðu
plural þið hikið (þið), hikiði1
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

References

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  • Vol. 17, No. 1, Language Dissertation No. 32: Germanic-Balto-Slavic Etyma (Jan. - Mar., 1941), pp. 5-63

Japanese

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Romanization

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hika

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ひか

Tagalog

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Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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hikà (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜃ)

  1. asthma
    Synonyms: asma, hapo
Derived terms
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Etymology 2

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Contraction of halika.

Pronunciation

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Interjection

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hika (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜃ)

  1. alternative form of halika