hink
See also: Hink
EnglishEdit
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NounEdit
hink (plural hinks)
- (obsolete) A reaping hook.
See alsoEdit
- hink pink (etymologically unrelated)
ReferencesEdit
- 1874, Edward H. Knight, American Mechanical Dictionary
- “hink”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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DutchEdit
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GermanEdit
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VerbEdit
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HaushEdit
Alternative formsEdit
NounEdit
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ReferencesEdit
- 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')
ScotsEdit
Etymology 1Edit
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”).
VerbEdit
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 2Edit
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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SwedishEdit
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NounEdit
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DeclensionEdit
| Declension of hink | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Plural | |||
| Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
| Nominative | hink | hinken | hinkar | hinkarna |
| Genitive | hinks | hinkens | hinkars | hinkarnas |