hoko

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

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• IPA^(key): /ˈhoko/
• Rhymes: -oko
• Hyphenation: ho‧ko

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

• fiŝhoko (“fishhook”)
• hoketo

hoko

1. Rōmaji transcription of ほこ

hoko n

1. obsolete spelling of woko

• 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

From Proto-Polynesian *soko₂ (“to exchange”); compare with Tahitian hoʻo (“to trade”) and Hawaiian hō (“to give, transfer, supply”)^[1][2]

hoko

1. to barter, exchange, trade

   hoko mai: to buy, to purchase

   hoko atu: to sell

• hokonga
• wharehoko

• hohoko
• hokohoko

• “hoko” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

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!

hòko f

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

hoko (clitic meronym; singulative hoko, dual hokokipë, definite plural hokokɨ, indefinite plural hokopë)

1. forehead

• Perri Ferreira, Helder (2017) Yanomama Clause Structure‎^[2], volume 1, Utrecht: LOT, →ISBN, page 116