húka

See also: huka

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse húka.

Verb

húka (third person singular past indicative heyk, third person plural past indicative huku, supine hokið)

  1. to squat

Conjugation

Conjugation of (group v-40)
infinitive
supine hokið
present past
first singular húki heyk
second singular hýkur heykst
third singular hýkur heyk
plural húka huku
participle (a26)1 húkandi hokin
imperative
singular húk!
plural húkið!

1Only the past participle being declined.

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse húka.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈhuːka/
    Rhymes: -uːka

Verb

húka (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative húkti, supine húkt)

  1. to crouch, squat

Conjugation

húka – active voice (germynd)
infinitive nafnháttur húka
supine sagnbót húkt
present participle
húkandi
indicative
subjunctive
present
past
present
past
singular ég húki húkti húki húkti
þú húkir húktir húkir húktir
hann, hún, það húkir húkti húki húkti
plural við húkum húktum húkum húktum
þið húkið húktuð húkið húktuð
þeir, þær, þau húka húktu húki húktu
imperative boðháttur
singular þú húk (þú), húktu
plural þið húkið (þið), húkiði1
1 Spoken form, usually not written; in writing, the unappended plural form (optionally followed by the full pronoun) is preferred.

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *hūkan- (to squat), from *hūkkan-, back-formed from the iterative *huk(k)ōn-, from Proto-Indo-European *kuk-néh₂, from *kewk- (to curve, bend) (also the source of English high).[1]

Related to Middle Low German hûken, Old High German hūchan (> German hocken), Dutch huiken. Also compare English hook.

Verb

húka

  1. to squat

Descendants

  • Danish: huge
  • Faroese: húka
  • Icelandic: húka
  • Norwegian (Bokmål): huke
  • Norwegian (Nynorsk): huka, huke
  • Swedish: huka

References

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “hukan”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 252

Further reading

  • Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)