haak

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɦaːk/

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• Hyphenation: haak
• Rhymes: -aːk

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch hāke, from Old Dutch *hako, from Proto-West Germanic *hakō, from Proto-Germanic *hakô.

Noun

haak m (plural haken, diminutive haakje n)

1. hook
2. (usually in the plural, diminutive) bracket (for enclosing text or mathematical symbols)

Derived terms

• garderobehaak
• haakbus
• haakneus
• haaksnavel
• haaktand
• haken
• hakenkruis n (“swastika”)
• inhaken
• onthaken
• puthaak
• schroefhaak
• trekhaak
• vishaak
• vleeshaak
• weerhaak
• winkelhaak

 

Descendants

• Afrikaans: haak
• Berbice Creole Dutch: haki
• Negerhollands: huk
• → Indonesian: hak
• → Papiamentu: hak, haak
• → Sranan Tongo: aka
  • → Caribbean Javanese: akah

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

haak

1. inflection of haken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Estonian

Etymology

Derived from a Germanic language, probably Low German hake. Compare Finnish haka.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhɑːk/, [ˈ(h)ɑːkˑ]
• Rhymes: -ɑːk
• Hyphenation: haak

Noun

haak (genitive haagi, partitive haaki)

1. hook (usually as part of a closure, etc.)
2. detour (deviation from moving in a straight direction)

Declension

Declension of haak (ÕS type 22e/riik, k-g gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		haak	haagid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	haagi
genitive			haakide
partitive		haaki	haake haakisid
illative		haaki haagisse	haakidesse haagesse
inessive		haagis	haakides haages
elative		haagist	haakidest haagest
allative		haagile	haakidele haagele
adessive		haagil	haakidel haagel
ablative		haagilt	haakidelt haagelt
translative		haagiks	haakideks haageks
terminative		haagini	haakideni
essive		haagina	haakidena
abessive		haagita	haakideta
comitative		haagiga	haakidega

Descendants

• → Votic: haakki

References

• haak in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “haak”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009