Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗A rod bent into a curved shape, typically with one end free and the other end secured to a rope or other attachment. · A barbed metal hook used for fishing; a fishhook. · Any of various hook-shaped agricultural implements such as a billhook. · The curved needle used in the art of crochet.
From Middle English hoke, from Old English hōc (“angle, point, hook”), from Proto-West Germanic *hōk, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz, variant of *hakô (“hook”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”). Cognates Cognate with Scots huke, huik (“hook”), West Frisian and Dutch hoek (“hook, angle, corner”), Low German Hook, Huuk, German Hook (“small cluster of farms”), Faroese høkja (“crutch”), Icelandic hækja (“crutch”), Norn hek (“crutch”), Finnish kuokka (“hoe, mattock”). Related to hake.
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- Inherited-form mentionhokeenm
- Inherited-form mentionhōcang
- Inherited-form mention*hōkgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*hōkazgem-pro
- Derivation mention*kog-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionhukesco
- Cognate mentionhoeknl
- Cognate mentionHooknds
- Cognate mentionHookde
- Cognate mentionhøkjafo
- Cognate mentionhækjais
- Cognate mentionheknrn
- Cognate mentionkuokkafi
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