hoko

See also: hóko, hōkō, and hōko

Esperanto

Etymology

From English hook, from Proto-Germanic *hakô (“hook”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”).

Pronunciation
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  • IPA(key): [ˈhoko]
  • Rhymes: -oko
  • Hyphenation: ho‧ko

Noun

hoko (accusative singular hokon, plural hokoj, accusative plural hokojn)

  1. hook
    • 1910, L. L. Zamenhof, Proverbaro Esperanta:
      Por kapti ezokon, bongustigu la hokon.
      To catch a pike, make right your hook.
  2. (orthography, colloquial) breve (hook-shaped diacritic visible in the Esperanto letter Ŭ ŭ)
    Synonym: hoketo

Derived terms

Japanese

Romanization

hoko

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ほこ

Lower Sorbian

Noun

hoko n inan

  1. Obsolete spelling of woko

References
  • Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “hoko”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

hoko f (definite singular hokoa)

  1. (dialectal) alternative form of hake
    • 1973, Alf Prøysen, Onger er rare [Childs are Weird], Oslo: Tiden, page 192:
      Opp med hokoa, Sverre!
      Up with your chin, Sverre!

Noun

hòko f

  1. definite singular of hòku (non-standard since 1917)
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