hake

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• /heɪk/
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• homophone: haik (one pronunciation)
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* As a North Germanic surname, from Old Norse haki (“hook”), from Proto-Germanic *hakô. * As a north German surname, spelling variant of Haack. * As a Dutch and north German surname, from haag (“hedge”). * As a Jewish/Yiddish surname, spelling variant of Hacke, from האַק (hak, “axe”).

From Middle English *hake, from Old English hæca, haca (“hook, bolt, door-fastening, bar”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakō, from Proto-Germanic *hakô (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook”). Related to hook. Cognates Cognate with Dutch haak (“hook”), German Haken (“hook”), Danish hage (“hook”), Swedish hake (“hook”), Icelandic haki (“hook”), Hittite [Term?] (/⁠kagas⁠/, “tooth”), Middle Irish chaing (“weapons rack”), Lithuanian kéngė (“hook, latch”), Russian ко́готь (kógotʹ, “claw”).

From Middle English hake, probably a shortened form (due to North Germanic influence) of English dialectal haked (“pike”). Compare Norwegian hakefisk (“trout, salmon”), Middle Low German haken (“kipper”). More at haked.

37 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Asturian: merluza — fish
• Asturian: pescada — fish
• Basque: legatz — fish
• Breton: merluz — fish
• Breton: merluch — fish
• Bulgarian: хек (hek) — fish
• Catalan: lluç — fish
• Czech: hejk — fish
• Czech: mořská štika — fish
• Czech: štikozubec — fish
• Danish: kulmule — fish
• Dutch: heek — fish
• Finnish: kummeliturska — fish
• French: merlu — fish
• Galician: pescada — fish
• German: Hechtdorsch — fish
• German: Seehecht — fish
• Hungarian: hekk — fish
• Irish: colmóir — fish
• Italian: nasello — fish
• Macedonian: ослич (oslič) — fish
• Norman: mèrluche — fish
• Norman: colîn — fish
• Norwegian Bokmål: lysing — fish
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lysing — fish
• Polish: morszczuk — fish
• Portuguese: merluza — fish
• Russian: хек (xek) — fish
• Russian: мерлу́за (merlúza) — fish
• Serbo-Croatian: oslić — fish
• Spanish: merluza — fish
• Spanish: pescadilla — fish
• Tagalog: merlusa — fish
• Turkish: barlam — fish
• Welsh: cegddu — fish
• Polish: suszarnia — shed
• Serbo-Croatian: sušara — shed