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huka

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See also: húka

'Are'are

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Noun

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huka

  1. wife

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Maori

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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huka

  1. snow, foam, froth, any white form of precipitation
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Etymology 2

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From English sugar.

Noun

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huka

  1. sugar
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Further reading

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  • huka” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →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 551-559

Norwegian Bokmål

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Alternative forms

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Verb

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huka

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

Swedish

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Etymology

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

Verb

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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 sigHe crouched down

Usage notes

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

Conjugation

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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.

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