hink
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɪŋk
Noun
hink (plural hinks)
- (obsolete) A reaping hook.
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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “hink”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
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Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
hink
- (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of hinken
- (deprecated template usage) imperative of hinken
German
Verb
hink
Haush
Alternative forms
Noun
hink
References
- Charles Wellington Furlong, The Haush And Ona, Primitive Tribes Of Tierra Del Fuego, in the Proceedings Of The Nineteenth International Congress Of Americanists (December 1915)
- Voces en el viento: raíces lingüísticas de la Patagonia : lingüística comparativa de las lenguas aborígenes del sur del continente americano (2005): genk'e-nK 'paisano', es un derivado de un término de significado 'hombre', sólo mantenido en haush (Bridges 1948 ‹hink›, Tonelli ‹enk› 'hombre')
Scots
Etymology 1
Variant of think. From Middle English thinken, thynken, thenken, thenchen, from Old English þencan, þenċan, þenċean (“to think”), from Proto-Germanic *þankijaną (“to think, suppose, perceive”), from Proto-Indo-European *teng- (“to think, feel, know”).
Verb
hink (third-person singular simple present hinks, present participle hinkin, simple past thought or thocht, past participle thought or thocht)
- (many Scots dialects) to think.
Etymology 2
From Middle English *hinken, from Old English hincian (“to limp, halt, hobble”), from Proto-Germanic *hinkaną (“to limp, hobble, be injured”).
Verb
hink (third-person singular simple present hinks, present participle hinking, simple past and past participle hinked)
Swedish
Noun
hink c
- bucket (container)
Declension
Declension of hink | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | hink | hinken | hinkar | hinkarna |
Genitive | hinks | hinkens | hinkars | hinkarnas |
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