Old English hake

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• Changes to Old English vocabulary — This article is part of a series on: Old English Dialects …   Wikipedia

• hake — ► NOUN ▪ a large headed elongated food fish with long jaws and strong teeth. ORIGIN perhaps from Old English, «hook» …   English terms dictionary

• hake — 1) a common name applied to various members of the family Merlucciidae or Gadidae. Most English words involving hake refer to Merluccius merluccius, the European hake, fished around the shores of Britain. The word hake is Middle English, possibly …   Dictionary of ichthyology

• hake — /heɪk / (say hayk) noun (plural hake or hakes) 1. → gemfish. 2. any of several marine gadoid fishes of the genus Merluccius, related to the cod, as M. merluccius of European coasts. 3. any of various related marine fishes, especially of the genus …  

• Hake (surname) — Hake (alternatively Hakes) is a surname of English and Nordic origin, with Hakes being patronymic from Hake (Hakeson/Hakessonn).The orgins of Hake(s) are said to derive from the Old Norse word haki , which is cognate with the word hook and given… …   Wikipedia

• King hake — King King, n. [AS. cyng, cyning; akin to OS. kuning, D. koning, OHG. kuning, G. k[ o]nig, Icel. konungr, Sw. konung, Dan. konge; formed with a patronymic ending, and fr. the root of E. kin; cf. Icel. konr a man of noble birth. [root]44. See {Kin} …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• Thomas Gordon Hake — (March 10, 1809 January 11, 1895), English poet, was born at Leeds, of an old Devon family. His mother was a Gordon of the Huntly branch. He studied medicine at St George s hospital and at Edinburgh and Glasgow, but had given up practice for many …   Wikipedia

• The king's English — King King, n. [AS. cyng, cyning; akin to OS. kuning, D. koning, OHG. kuning, G. k[ o]nig, Icel. konungr, Sw. konung, Dan. konge; formed with a patronymic ending, and fr. the root of E. kin; cf. Icel. konr a man of noble birth. [root]44. See {Kin} …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• hook — [OE] Hook and its Germanic relatives, German haken, Dutch haak, Swedish hake, and Danish hage, go back to a prehistoric *keg or *keng ‘bent object’, from which English also gets hank [14] (via Old Norse *hanku). Old Norse haki ‘hook’ was the… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• hook — [OE] Hook and its Germanic relatives, German haken, Dutch haak, Swedish hake, and Danish hage, go back to a prehistoric *keg or *keng ‘bent object’, from which English also gets hank [14] (via Old Norse *hanku). Old Norse haki ‘hook’ was the… …   Word origins

• keg- — Hook, tooth. 1. a. hake, from Old English haca, hook, akin to Old Norse haki, hook; b. harquebus, from Middle Dutch hake, hook. Both a and b from Germanic *hakan . 2. a …   Universalium