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Etymology

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From Low German and Middle Low German hucken, 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]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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hocken (weak, third-person singular present hockt, past tense hockte, past participle gehockt, auxiliary sein)

  1. to squat; to crouch; to sit in a huddled position
    Synonym: kauern
  2. (regional, chiefly southern) to sit (in general)

Conjugation

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References

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  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “hukan”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 252

Further reading

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  • hocken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • hocken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • hocken” in Duden online
  • hocken” in OpenThesaurus.de