hawk – English noun declension

English noun forms of hawk

Noun: hawk
Singularhawk
Pluralhawks

Sample Sentences

  • It is illegal to hunt hawks or other raptors in many parts of the world.
  • He made his hawke to fly,
  • With hogeous showte and cry. [c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 47–48:]
  • A hawk by nature, Ellenborough strongly favoured presenting St Petersburg with an ultimatum warning that any further incursions into Persia would be regarded as a hostile act. [1990, Peter Hopkirk, The Great Game, Folio Society, published 2010, page 106:]
  • “Everybody knows who were the hawks and who were the doves,” Bundy told the ExComm on the morning of October 28, after Khrushchev announced that he was withdrawing his missiles. “Today was the day of the doves.” [2012 October 11 [1962], Michael Dobbs, quoting McGeorge Bundy, “The original hawks and doves”, in Foreign Policy:]
  • President Donald Trump has spent years playing the role of a China hawk. [2019, “The World in 2020”, in The Economist:]
  • […] take-out sandwich from Arnie's on Jackson, then a brisk walk to Michigan Avenue in the face of the "Hawk," blowing newspapers and skirts and the gulls wheeling over the Michigan Avenue Bridge in front of […] [2000 September 26, William Anderson, A Season of Flames, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 27:]
  • […] a hand-fired coal furnace that required little attention and kept the cottage coy in spite of "the hawk" blowing icy blasts outside. So in spite of Thumper's continuing discomfort we enjoyed a fairly merry Christmas. But then the base daily bulletin was published with the roster of OGs (officers of the guard) for the[…] [2002 June 25, Charles W. Dryden, A-Train: Memoirs of a Tuskegee Airman, University of Alabama Press, →ISBN, page 215:]
  • I wanna learn by Ruby's birthday party." Pride turned up his collar against the hawk blowing from the river." [2007 December 1, Gay G. Gunn, Pride and Joi, Kensington Books, →ISBN, page 47:]
  • […] in Chicago […] I can't help but love winter and fall. Mostly fall, because fuck snow, and that hawk blowing off the lake is enough to make your teeth drop right out of your skull , but winter can be kind of okay if it doesn't snow a whole lot and no one asks me to go sledding or do some other Hallmark-movie nonsense. [2017 May 30, Samantha Irby, We Are Never Meeting in Real Life.: Essays, Vintage, →ISBN, page 95:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. substratebor.?
3. Proto-Indo-European *kap-der.?
4. Proto-Germanic *habukaz
5. Proto-West Germanic *habuk
6. Old English hafoc
7. Middle English hauk
8. English hawk
9. Inherited from Middle English hauk, hauke, hawke, havek, from Old English hafoc, from Proto-West Germanic *habuk, from Proto-Germanic *habukaz, controversially derived from Proto-Indo-European *kopuǵos, perhaps ultimately derived from *kap- (“seize”).
10. Cognate with West Frisian hauk, German Low German Haavke, Dutch havik, German Habicht, Swedish hök, Danish høg, Norwegian Bokmål hauk, Norwegian Nynorsk hauk, Faroese heykur, Icelandic haukur, Finnish haukka, Estonian haugas; also Latin capys, capus (“bird of prey”), Albanian gabonjë, shkabë (“eagle”), Russian ко́бец (kóbec, “falcon”), Polish kobuz (“Eurasian Hobby”)). See: Middle English Nouns 'hauk,hauke,hawke,havek', Middle English Nouns 'hauk,hauke,hawke,havek', Old English Nouns 'hafoc', Dutch Nouns 'havik', German Nouns 'Habicht', Swedish Nouns 'hök', Danish Nouns 'høg', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns 'hauk', Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns 'hauk', Faroese Nouns 'heykur', Icelandic Nouns 'haukur', Finnish Nouns 'haukka', Latin Nouns 'capys', Polish Nouns 'kobuz'.

Verbs referencing "hawk"

German Nouns Habicht, Dutch Nouns havik, Danish Nouns høg, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns hauk, Russian Nouns кобчик, Bulgarian Nouns кобец, Romanian Nouns scaba.