hake
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /heɪk/
- Rhymes: -eɪk
Etymology 1
From Middle English *hake, from Old English hæca, haca (“hook, bolt, door-fastening, bar”), from Proto-Germanic *hakô (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook”). Cognate with Dutch haak (“hook”), German Haken (“hook”), Danish hage (“hook”), Swedish hake (“hook”), Icelandic haki (“hook”), Hittite kagas (“tooth”), Middle Irish chaing (“weapons rack”), Lithuanian kéngė (“hook, latch”), Russian ко́готь (kógotʹ, “claw”). Related to hook.
Noun
hake (plural hakes)
Etymology 2
From Middle English hake, probably a shortened form (due to Scandinavian influence) of English dialectal haked (“pike”). Compare Norwegian hakefisk (“trout, salmon”), Middle Low German haken (“kipper”). More at haked.
Alternative forms
Noun
hake (plural hakes or hake)
- One of several species of marine gadoid fishes, of the genera Phycis, Merluccius, and allies.
Synonyms
Hyponyms
- (gadoid fish): European hake (Merluccius merluccius), American silver hake, whiting (Merluccius bilinearis), Phycis chuss, Phycis tenius
Translations
Etymology 3
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Noun
hake (plural hakes)
- 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.
- 1882, P. L. Sword & Son, Sword's Improved Patent Brick Machine, in the Adrian City Directories:
Translations
Etymology 4
Verb
hake (third-person singular simple present hakes, present participle haking, simple past and past participle haked)
- (Britain, dialect) To loiter; to sneak.
- 1886, English Dialect Society, Publications: Volume 52
- She'd as well been at school as haking about.
- 1886, English Dialect Society, Publications: Volume 52
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)
Dutch
Verb
hake
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of haken
Finnish
Etymology
Noun
hake
- woodchips as mass, e.g. when used as fuel
Declension
| Inflection of hake (Kotus type 48/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 | |
German
Verb
hake
- First-person singular present of haken.
- First-person singular subjunctive I of haken.
- Third-person singular subjunctive I of haken.
- Imperative singular of haken.
Japanese
Romanization
hake
Middle Dutch
Etymology
From Old Dutch *hako, *hāko, from Proto-Germanic *hakô, *hēkô. The modern Limburgish ao suggests Old Dutch ā.
Noun
hāke or hâke m
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: haak
- Limburgish: haok
Further reading
- “hake”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology 1
Noun
hake f, m (definite singular haka or haken, indefinite plural haker, definite plural hakene)
- a chin (bottom of the face)
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Noun
hake m (definite singular haken, indefinite plural haker, definite plural hakene)
Derived terms
References
- “hake” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
Noun
hake f (definite singular haka, indefinite plural haker, definite plural hakene)
- chin (bottom of the face)
Derived terms
- dobbelhake, dobbelthake
Etymology 2
Noun
hake m (definite singular haken, indefinite plural hakar, definite plural hakane)
Derived terms
References
- “hake” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Swedish haki, from Old Norse haki, from Proto-Germanic *hakô.
Noun
hake c
- catch, latch; a stopping mechanism that prevents something from opening
- 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 |