hökare

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle Low German hȫker (“peddler”), perhaps from Old High German huchan (“to crouch, sit bent forward”), 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]

Compare Danish høker, German Höker, English hawker. According to SO attested since 1640.

Noun

hökare c

  1. hawker (peddler, huckster)

Declension
Declension of hökare 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative hökare hökaren hökare hökarna
Genitive hökares hökarens hökares hökarnas

Derived terms
  • hökarebod
  • hökarehandel
  • hökarehustru
  • hökaremössa
  • hökareskrå
  • hökaresocitet
  • hökarevara
  • hökareved
  • hökarevikt
  • hökareänka

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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