høker
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Middle Low German hȫker (“peddler”), perhaps from Old High German huchan (“to crouch, sit bent forward”), 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]
The Low German word was also borrowed to Norwegian høker, Swedish hökare, German Höker, Dutch heuker (dialect) and English hawker. Middle Low German also has the noun hōke (“peddler”) and the verb hōken (“to peddle”).
høker c (singular definite høkeren, plural indefinite høkere)
common gender |
singular | plural | ||
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indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite | |
nominative | høker | høkeren | høkere | høkerne |
genitive | høkers | høkerens | høkeres | høkernes |
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