huka

See also: húka

'Are'are

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /huka/
• Hyphenation: hu‧ka

Noun

huka

1. wife

References

• Naitoro, Kateřina (2013) A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (Thesis)‎^[1], Christchurch, New Zealand: University of Canterbury, archived from the original on 2017-11-28

Māori

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhuka/ [ˈhʉkɐ]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *fuka (“foam”). Cognate with Hawaiian huʻa (“foam, bubbles”)

Noun

huka

1. snow, foam, froth, any white form of precipitation

Derived terms

• hukahuka (“foam”, verb)
• hukanga (“foam”, noun)
• hukapapa (“frost”)
• hukapuri (“hard frost”)
• papahuka (“snowfield”)
• retihuka (“ski”, verb)

Etymology 2

From English sugar. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Possible semantic influence from Etymology 1?”)

Noun

huka

1. sugar

Derived terms

• huka parauri (“brown sugar”)
• mate huka (“diabetes”)

Further reading

• John C. Moorfield (2011), “huka”, in Te Aka: Māori–English, English–Māori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, →ISBN
• Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “FUKA.2”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551–9

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• huket
• hukte (simple past)
• hukt (past participle)

Verb

huka

1. inflection of huke:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

Swedish

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse húka. Cognate of German hocken, Dutch huiken. Doublet of hög.

Verb

huka (present hukar, preterite hukade, supine hukat, imperative huka)

1. (reflexive) to go down into or be in a (half) sitting position; to squat, to crouch

   Synonyms: (go into a squatting position) gå ner på huk, (be in a squatting position) sitta på huk

   Han hukade sig ― He crouched down

Usage notes

Optionally but more commonly reflexive ("De hukade" is the same as "De hukade sig")

Conjugation

Conjugation of huka (weak)

	active		passive
infinitive	huka		hukas
supine	hukat		hukats
imperative	huka		—
imper. plural1	huken		—
	present	past	present	past
indicative	hukar	hukade	hukas	hukades
ind. plural1	huka	hukade	hukas	hukades
subjunctive2	huke	hukade	hukes	hukades
present participle		hukande
past participle		hukad

¹ Archaic. ² Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

References

• “huka”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “huka”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “huka”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)