hake

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See also: Hake and häke

English[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): /heɪk/
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  • Rhymes: -eɪk

Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English *hake, from Old English hæca, haca (“hook, bolt, door-fastening, bar”), from Proto-Germanic *hakô (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook”). Cognate with Dutch haak (“hook”), German Haken (“hook”), Danish hage (“hook”), Swedish hake (“hook”), Icelandic haki (“hook”), Hittite [Term?] (/kagas/, “tooth”), Middle Irish chaing (“weapons rack”), Lithuanian kéngė (“hook, latch”), Russian ко́готь (kógotʹ, “claw”). Related to hook.

Noun[edit]

hake (plural hakes)

  1. (now chiefly dialectal) A hook; a pot-hook.
  2. (now chiefly dialectal) A kind of weapon; a pike.
  3. (now chiefly dialectal) (in the plural) The draught-irons of a plough.

Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle English hake, probably a shortened form (due to Scandinavian influence) of English dialectal haked (“pike”). Compare Norwegian hakefisk (“trout, salmon”), Middle Low German haken (“kipper”). More at haked.

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Noun[edit]

hake (plural hakes or hake)

  1. One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies.
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Etymology 3[edit]

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Noun[edit]

hake (plural hakes)

  1. A drying shed, as for unburned tile.
    • 1882, P. L. Sword & Son, Sword's Improved Patent Brick Machine, in the Adrian City Directories:
      The clay is taken direct from the bank and made into brick the right temper to place direct from the Machine in the hake on the yard. [...] take the brick direct from the Machine and put them in the hake to dry.
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Etymology 4[edit]

Compare Dutch haken (“to hanker”).

Verb[edit]

hake (third-person singular simple present hakes, present participle haking, simple past and past participle haked)

  1. (Britain, dialect) To loiter; to sneak.
    • 1886, English Dialect Society, Publications: Volume 52:
      She'd as well been at school as haking about.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for hake in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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Dutch[edit]

Verb[edit]

hake

  1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of haken

Finnish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

hakata +‎ -e

Noun[edit]

hake

  1. woodchips as mass, e.g. when used as fuel

Declension[edit]

Inflection of hake (Kotus type 48/hame, kk-k gradation)
nominative hake hakkeet
genitive hakkeen hakkeiden
hakkeitten
partitive haketta hakkeita
illative hakkeeseen hakkeisiin
hakkeihin
singular plural
nominative hake hakkeet
accusative nom. hake hakkeet
gen. hakkeen
genitive hakkeen hakkeiden
hakkeitten
partitive haketta hakkeita
inessive hakkeessa hakkeissa
elative hakkeesta hakkeista
illative hakkeeseen hakkeisiin
hakkeihin
adessive hakkeella hakkeilla
ablative hakkeelta hakkeilta
allative hakkeelle hakkeille
essive hakkeena hakkeina
translative hakkeeksi hakkeiksi
instructive — hakkein
abessive hakkeetta hakkeitta
comitative — hakkeineen
Possessive forms of hake (type hame)
possessor singular plural
1st person hakkeeni hakkeemme
2nd person hakkeesi hakkeenne
3rd person hakkeensa

German[edit]

Verb[edit]

hake

  1. First-person singular present of haken.
  2. First-person singular subjunctive I of haken.
  3. Third-person singular subjunctive I of haken.
  4. Imperative singular of haken.

Japanese[edit]

Romanization[edit]

hake

  1. Rōmaji transcription of はけ

Middle Dutch[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Dutch *hako, *hāko, from Proto-Germanic *hakô, *hēkô. The modern Limburgish ao suggests Middle Dutch â, and therefore also Old Dutch ā and Proto-Germanic *ē.

Noun[edit]

hāke or hâke m

  1. hook

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Descendants[edit]

  • Dutch: haak
    • Afrikaans: haak
    • Indonesian: hak (“hook”)
    • → Sranan Tongo: aka
  • Limburgish: haok

Further reading[edit]

Middle English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Unknown; see more at English hake.

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

hake (plural hakes)

  1. hake (gadoid fish)

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Norwegian Bokmål[edit]

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Norse haka

Noun[edit]

hake f or m (definite singular haka or haken, indefinite plural haker, definite plural hakene)

  1. a chin (bottom of the face)
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Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Norse haki

Noun[edit]

hake m (definite singular haken, indefinite plural haker, definite plural hakene)

  1. hook
  2. barb
  3. calk
  4. catch, drawback
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Norwegian Nynorsk[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

From Old Norse haka, Proto-Germanic *hakǭ.

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Noun[edit]

hake f (definite singular haka, indefinite plural haker, definite plural hakene)

  1. chin (bottom of the face)
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Etymology 2[edit]

From Old Norse haki

Noun[edit]

hake m (definite singular haken, indefinite plural hakar, definite plural hakane)

  1. hook
  2. barb
  3. calk
  4. catch, drawback
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Swedish[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Swedish haki, from Old Norse haki, from Proto-Germanic *hakô.

Noun[edit]

hake c

  1. catch, latch; a stopping mechanism that prevents something from opening
  2. catch; an unforeseen or concealed problem

Declension[edit]

Declension of hake 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative hake haken hakar hakarna
Genitive hakes hakens hakars hakarnas
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