Noun: hake
| Singular | hake |
| Plural | hakes; hake |
Sample Sentences
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Hake is an expensive fish—and is also very vulnerable to damage by mis-handling. [1964 October, P. Baxter, “Fleetwood is sceptical of BR's fish train plan”, in Modern Railways, page 255:]
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Off the United States, the National Marine Fisheries Service is helping industry explore fisheries for deep shrimp, rattails, chimeras, orange roughy, smoothheads, slackjaw eels, blue hake, skates and dogfish, which the National Fisheries Institute, an industry group, in an effort to improve their marketability, has renamed cape shark. [1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times:]
Nouns inflected like hake
whiting,
Munduruku,
Mundurucu,
sempai,
senpai,
saseng,
satang,
cunjevoi,
sansei,
Namboothiri,
somoni,
Sentinelese,
siopao,
shogun,
shinza,
Barakzai,
Chippewyan,
Diaguita,
shōgun,
thermal horsepower, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English *hake, from Old English hæca, haca (“hook, bolt, door-fastening, bar”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakō, from Proto-Germanic *hakô (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook”). Related to hook.
2. Cognates
3. Cognate with Dutch haak (“hook”), German Haken (“hook”), Danish hage (“hook”), Swedish hake (“hook”), Icelandic haki (“hook”), Hittite [Term?] (/kagas/, “tooth”), Middle Irish chaing (“weapons rack”), Lithuanian kéngė (“hook, latch”), Russian ко́готь (kógotʹ, “claw”). See: Middle English Nouns '
*hake', Old English Nouns '
hæca', Dutch Nouns '
haak', German Nouns '
Haken', Danish Nouns '
hage', Swedish Nouns '
hake', Icelandic Nouns '
haki'.
Verbs referencing "hake"
Middle English Nouns
hake, English Nouns
háček, Russian Nouns
хек, Dutch Nouns
heek.