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hink

See also: Hink

English

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Noun

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hink (plural hinks)

  1. (obsolete) A reaping hook.

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Dutch

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hink

  1. inflection of hinken:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. imperative

German

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hink

  1. singular imperative of hinken

Haush

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Noun

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hink

  1. man

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  • 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

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Etymology 1

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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

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hink (third-person singular simple present hinks, present participle hinkin, simple past thought or thocht, past participle thought or thocht)

  1. (many Scots dialects) to think.

Etymology 2

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From Middle English *hinken, from Old English hincian (“to limp, halt, hobble”), from Proto-Germanic *hinkaną (“to limp, hobble, be injured”).

Verb

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hink

  1. (obsolete) to falter or limp.

Swedish

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Noun

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hink c

  1. bucket (container)
  2. (slang) alcohol, vodka

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Declension of hink 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative hink hinken hinkar hinkarna
Genitive hinks hinkens hinkars hinkarnas

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