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 húka (group v-40)
infinitive húka
supine hokið
participle (a26)1 húkandi hokin
present past
first singular húki heyk
second singular hýkur heykst
third singular hýkur heyk
plural húka huku
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)		 að húka
supine
(sagnbót)		 húkt
present participle
(lýsingarháttur nútíðar)		 húkandi
indicative
(framsöguháttur)		 subjunctive
(viðtengingarháttur)
present
(nútíð)		 ég húki við húkum present
(nútíð)		 ég húki við húkum
þú húkir þið húkið þú húkir þið húkið
hann, hún, það húkir þeir, þær, þau húka hann, hún, það húki þeir, þær, þau húki
past
(þátíð)		 ég húkti við húktum past
(þátíð)		 ég húkti við húktum
þú húktir þið húktuð þú húktir þið húktuð
hann, hún, það húkti þeir, þær, þau húktu hann, hún, það húkti þeir, þær, þau húktu
imperative
(boðháttur)		 húk (þú) húkið (þið)
Forms with appended personal pronoun
húktu húkiði *
* 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), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 252
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