*hakô

Runic: ᚺᚨᚲᛟ Pronunciation: /ˈxɑ.kɔːː/

noun · masculine · an-stem

Meanings

hook

Etymology

Appears to stem from a pre-Germanic *kh₂/₃k-on-, with no certain cognates outside of Germanic, due to a degree of semantic uncertainty with words of similar sound and meaning in other branches. Orel compares Hittite [script needed] (kaka-) (kaka-, ‘tooth’) and Proto-Slavic *kogъtь (‘claw, talon’). The Germanic has been traditionally reconstructed further to a Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (‘peg; hook’), and, in addition to the Slavic, compared with Persian چنگ (čang, ‘claw, talon’).

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	hakô	hakaniz
Acc.	hakanų	hakanunz
Gen.	hakiniz	hakanǫ̂
Dat.	hakini	hakammaz
Inst.	hakinē	hakammiz
Voc.	hakô	hakaniz

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Descendants

*hakō (Proto-West Germanic)
- *hako (Old Dutch)
  - hake (Middle Dutch)
    - haok (Limburgish)
*hakō (Proto-West Germanic)
- *hako (Old Dutch)
  - hake (Middle Dutch)
    - haak (Dutch)
      - haak (Afrikaans)
      - haki (Berbice Creole Dutch)
      - hak (Indonesian)
      - huk (Negerhollands)
      - hak, haak (Papiamentu)
*hakō (Proto-West Germanic)
- *hako (Old Dutch)
  - hake (Middle Dutch)
    - haak (Dutch)
      - aka (Sranan Tongo)
        
        akah (Caribbean Javanese)
*hakō (Proto-West Germanic)
- haca, hæca (Old English)
  - hæċċe, *hakjǭ (Old English)
*hakō (Proto-West Germanic)
- haca, hæca (Old English)
  - *hake (Middle English)
    - hake (English)
    - hake, haik (Scots)
*hakō (Proto-West Germanic)
- haka (Old Frisian)
  - Hoake (Saterland Frisian)
  - heak (West Frisian)
*hakō (Proto-West Germanic)
- haho, hako (Old High German)
  - hāken (Middle High German)
    - hák (Czech)
    - Haken (German)
    - hak (Polish)
*hakō (Proto-West Germanic)
- haco, hako (Old Saxon)
  - hāke (Middle Low German)
    - Hake, Haak (German Low German)
haki (Old Norse)
- hage (Danish)
- atji (Elfdalian)
- haki (Faroese)
- haki (Icelandic)
- hake (Norwegian Bokmål)
- hake (Norwegian Nynorsk)
haki (Old Norse)
- haki (Old Swedish)
  - hake (Swedish)

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