hake

See also: Hake and häke

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /heɪk/
• Rhymes: -eɪk

Etymology 1

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 kagas (“tooth”), Middle Irish chaing (“weapons rack”), Lithuanian kéngė (“hook, latch”), Russian ко́готь (kógotʹ, “claw”). Related to hook.

Noun

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

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.

Alternative forms

• haak

Noun

hake (plural hakes or hake)

1. One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies.

Synonyms

• codling, squirrel hake

Hyponyms

• (gadoid fish): European hake (Merluccius merluccius), American silver hake, whiting (Merluccius bilinearis), Phycis chuss, Phycis tenius

Translations

fish

• Basque: legatz
• Catalan: lluç (ca) m
• Dutch: heek (nl)
• Finnish: kummeliturska (fi)
• French: merlu (fr)
• Galician: pescada f
• German: Hechtdorsch m, Seehecht (de) m
• Irish: colmóir m
• Italian: nasello (it) m
• Norman: mèrluche f (Jersey), colîn m (Jersey)

• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: (European hake) lysing m

  Nynorsk: (European hake) lysing m

• Polish: morszczuk (pl) m
• Portuguese: merluza (pt) f
• Russian: хек (ru) m (xek)
• Serbo-Croatian: oslić (sh) m
• Spanish: merluza f
• Tagalog: merlusa
• Welsh: cegddu (cy) m, f

Etymology 3

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Noun

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.

Translations

shed

Etymology 4

Verb

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

Verb

hake

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of haken

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Finnish

Etymology

hakata +‎ -e

Noun

hake

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

Declension

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

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German

Verb

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.

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Japanese

Romanization

hake

1. Rōmaji transcription of はけ

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *hako, *hāko, from Proto-Germanic *hakô, *hēkô. The modern Limburgish ao suggests Old Dutch ā.

Noun

hāke or hâke m

1. hook

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: haak
• Limburgish: haok

Further reading

• “hake”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse haka

Noun

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

1. a chin (bottom of the face)

Derived terms

• dobbelthake

Etymology 2

From Old Norse haki

Noun

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

1. hook
2. barb
3. calk
4. catch, drawback

Derived terms

• hakekors
• vinkelhake

References

• “hake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse haka

Noun

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

1. chin (bottom of the face)

Derived terms

• dobbelhake, dobbelthake

Etymology 2

From Old Norse haki

Noun

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

1. hook
2. barb
3. calk
4. catch, drawback

Derived terms

• hakekors, hakekross
• vinkelhake

References

• “hake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Swedish

Etymology

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

Noun

hake c

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

Declension

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