huiken

Dutch

Etymology 1

See huik

Pronunciation

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Noun

huiken

  1. plural of huik

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch huken, 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]

Verb

huiken

  1. (archaic) to squat, to bend (through the knees)
    • 1802, Hij huikt van zwaren last, Weiland. Nederduitsch taalkundig woordenboek:
      He bent under a heavy weight.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Conjugation
Conjugation of huiken (weak)
infinitive huiken
past singular huikte
past participle gehuikt
infinitive huiken
gerund huiken n
present tense past tense
1st person singular huik huikte
2nd person sing. (jij) huikt, huik2 huikte
2nd person sing. (u) huikt huikte
2nd person sing. (gij) huikt huikte
3rd person singular huikt huikte
plural huiken huikten
subjunctive sing.1 huike huikte
subjunctive plur.1 huiken huikten
imperative sing. huik
imperative plur.1 huikt
participles huikend gehuikt
1) Archaic. 2) In case of inversion.

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
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