huke
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old French huque, from Latin huca. See Dutch huik (“sleeveless cape”).
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /h(j)uːk/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -uːk
Noun edit
huke (plural hukes)
- (historical) An outer garment (robe or cloak) worn by men and women in Europe in the Middle Ages, either as civilian clothing or over armor.
- 1631, Francis [Bacon], “(please specify |century=I to X)”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:
- there came one that seemed to be a messenger , in a rich huke
- 1930, “The real Joan of Arc: a manly maid - her appearance, her dress, her armour”, in The Illustrated London News:
- Her only extravagances were fine accoutrements, gorgeous hukes, and mighty war-horses.
- 1980, A. Ernestine Jones, The Trial of Joan of Arc:
- Judging from the surviving documents it would appear that Charles VII did nothing at all about Joan of Arc [...] but [she] also swore that she herself was often visited by God, dressed in a white robe with a scarlet huke over it.
- 2015 March 12, Phyllis G. Tortora, Sara B. Marcketti, Survey of Historic Costume, Bloomsbury Publishing USA, →ISBN, page 173:
- […] but after this date “white” armor, or highly polished metal armor, was rarely covered except by a tabard or huke […]
Translations edit
Further reading edit
- “huke”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
Anagrams edit
Basque edit
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /huke/ [hu.ke]
- IPA(key): (Southern) /uke/ [u.ke]
- Rhymes: -uke
- Hyphenation: hu‧ke
Verb edit
huke
- Informal second-person singular (hik), taking third-person singular (hura) as direct object, hypothetic consequential indicative form of izan.
Usage notes edit
Linguistically, this verb form can be seen as belonging to the reconstructed citation form edun instead of izan.
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology 1 edit
From the noun huk.
Verb edit
huke (imperative huk, present tense huker, passive hukes, simple past huka or huket or hukte, past participle huka or huket or hukt, present participle hukende)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
huke (imperative huk, present tense huker, passive hukes, simple past huka or huket or hukte, past participle huka or huket or hukt, present participle hukende)
References edit
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology 1 edit
From the noun huk.
Verb edit
huke (present tense hukar, past tense huka, past participle huka, passive infinitive hukast, present participle hukande, imperative huke/huk)
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
huke (present tense huker, past tense hukte, past participle hukt, passive infinitive hukast, present participle hukande, imperative huk)
References edit
- “huke” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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