hocken

German

Etymology

From Low German and Middle Low German hucken, 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]

Pronunciation
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Verb

hocken (weak, third-person singular present hockt, past tense hockte, past participle gehockt, auxiliary sein)

  1. to squat; to crouch; to sit in a huddled position
    Synonym: kauern
  2. (regional, chiefly southern) to sit (in general)

Conjugation

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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

Further reading
  • “hocken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
  • “hocken” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
  • “hocken” in Duden online
  • “hocken” in OpenThesaurus.de
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