huiken

Dutch

Etymology 1

See huik

Pronunciation
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Noun

huiken

  1. Plural form of huik

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch huken, 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]

Verb

huiken

  1. (archaic) to squat, to bend (through the knees)
    • 1802 Hij huikt van zwaren last --Weiland. Nederduitsch taalkundig woordenboek.
      He bent under a heavy weight.
Inflection
Inflection of huiken (weak)
infinitive huiken
past singular huikte
past participle gehuikt
infinitive huiken
gerund huiken n
present tense past tense
1st person singular huikhuikte
2nd person sing. (jij) huikthuikte
2nd person sing. (u) huikthuikte
2nd person sing. (gij) huikthuikte
3rd person singular huikthuikte
plural huikenhuikten
subjunctive sing.1 huikehuikte
subjunctive plur.1 huikenhuikten
imperative sing. huik
imperative plur.1 huikt
participles huikendgehuikt
1) Archaic.

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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