huka
'Are'are
Noun
hukaCategory:'Are'are lemmas#HUKACategory:'Are'are nouns#HUKACategory:'Are'are entries with incorrect language header#HUKACategory:Pages with entries#HUKACategory:Pages with 4 entries#HUKA
References
- Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)
Māori
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhuka/ [ˈhʉkɐ]Category:Māori terms with IPA pronunciation#HUKA
Etymology 1
From Proto-Nuclear PolynesianCategory:Māori terms inherited from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian#HUKACategory:Māori terms derived from Proto-Nuclear Polynesian#HUKA *fuka (“foam”). Cognate with Hawaiian huʻa (“foam, bubbles”)
Noun
hukaCategory:Māori lemmas#HUKACategory:Māori nouns#HUKACategory:Māori entries with incorrect language header#HUKACategory:Pages with entries#HUKACategory:Pages with 4 entries#HUKA
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From EnglishCategory:Māori terms derived from English#HUKA sugar. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Possible semantic influence from Etymology 1?”)Category:Requests for etymologies in Māori entries#HUKA
Noun
hukaCategory:Māori lemmas#HUKACategory:Māori nouns#HUKACategory:Māori entries with incorrect language header#HUKACategory:Pages with entries#HUKACategory:Pages with 4 entries#HUKA
Derived terms
- huka parauri (“brown sugar”)
- mate huka (“diabetes”)
Further reading
- “huka” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
- Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “FUKA.2”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551–9
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
Verb
hukaCategory:Norwegian Bokmål non-lemma forms#HUKACategory:Norwegian Bokmål verb forms#HUKACategory:Norwegian Bokmål entries with incorrect language header#HUKACategory:Pages with entries#HUKACategory:Pages with 4 entries#HUKA
- inflection of huke:
- simple past
- past participle
Swedish
Etymology
Inherited from Old NorseCategory:Swedish terms inherited from Old Norse#HUKACategory:Swedish terms derived from Old Norse#HUKA húka. Cognate of German hocken, Dutch huiken. Doublet of högCategory:Swedish doublets#HUKA.
Verb
huka (present hukar, preterite hukade, supine hukat, imperative huka)Category:Swedish lemmas#HUKACategory:Swedish verbs#HUKACategory:Swedish entries with incorrect language header#HUKACategory:Pages with entries#HUKACategory:Pages with 4 entries#HUKA
- (reflexiveCategory:Swedish reflexive verbs#HUKA) to go down into or be in a (half) sitting position; to squat, to crouch
- Synonyms: (go into a squatting position) gå ner på huk, (be in a squatting position) sitta på huk
- Han hukade sig ― He crouched downCategory:Swedish terms with usage examples#HUKA
Usage notes
Optionally but more commonly reflexive ("De hukade" is the same as "De hukade sig")
Conjugation
| active | passive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| infinitive | huka | hukas | ||
| supine | hukat | hukats | ||
| imperative | huka | — | ||
| imper. plural1 | huken | — | ||
| present | past | present | past | |
| indicative | hukar | hukade | hukas | hukades |
| ind. plural1 | huka | hukade | hukas | hukades |
| subjunctive2 | huke | hukade | hukes | hukades |
| present participle | hukande | |||
| past participle | hukad | |||
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.
References
- “huka”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- “huka”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
- “huka”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)