hake

See also: Hake and häke

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /heɪk/

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• Rhymes: -eɪk

Etymology 1

From Middle English *hake, from Old English hæca, haca (“hook, bolt, door-fastening, bar”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakō, from Proto-Germanic *hakô (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook”). Related to hook.

Cognates:

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”).

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 North Germanic 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
• Bulgarian: хек m (hek)
• Catalan: lluç (ca) m
• Danish: kulmule c
• 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 (no) 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 or 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

• Serbo-Croatian: sušara (sh)

Etymology 4

Ultimately related to the root of hook. Compare Dutch haken (“to hanker”).

Verb

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

1. (UK, 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.)

Anagrams

• heka

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Dutch

Verb

hake

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of haken

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Finnish

Etymology

hakata +‎ -e

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑkeˣ/, [ˈhɑke̞(ʔ)]
• Rhymes: -ɑke
• Syllabification: ha‧ke

Noun

hake

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

Declension

Inflection of hake (Kotus type 48*A/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

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German

Pronunciation

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Verb

hake

1. inflection of haken:
   1. first-person singular present
   2. first/third-person singular subjunctive I
   3. singular imperative

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Japanese

Romanization

hake

1. Rōmaji transcription of はけ

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Maori

Adjective

1. crooked, naked

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Middle Dutch

Etymology

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

Noun

hāke or hâke m

1. hook

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Alternative forms

• haec
• haeccen

Descendants

• Dutch: haak
  • Afrikaans: haak
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: haki
  • Negerhollands: huk
  • → Indonesian: hak
  • → Papiamentu: hak, haak
  • → Sranan Tongo: aka
    • → Caribbean Javanese: akah
• Limburgish: haok

Further reading

• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “hake”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN

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Middle English

Etymology

Unknown; see more at English hake.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhaːk(ə)/

Noun

hake (plural hakes)

1. hake (gadoid fish)

Descendants

• English: hake

References

• “hāke, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-08-05.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Old Norse haka

Noun

hake f or 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

• båtshake
• hakekors
• vinkelhake

References

• “hake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse haka, Proto-Germanic *hakǭ.

Alternative forms

• haka, hoka, hoke, hoko, hoku, huku (superseded forms)

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

• båtshake
• hakekors, hakekross
• vinkelhake

References

• “hake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

• heka

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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