huka

huka

1. wife

• Kateřina Naitoro, A Sketch Grammar of 'Are'are: The Sound System and Morpho-Syntax (2013)

• IPA^(key): /ˈhuka/ [ˈhʉkɐ]

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *fuka (“foam”). Cognate with Hawaiian huʻa (“foam, bubbles”)

huka

1. snow, foam, froth, any white form of precipitation

From English sugar. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “Possible semantic influence from Etymology 1?”)

huka

1. sugar

• huka parauri (“brown sugar”)
• mate huka (“diabetes”)

• “huka” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.
• Ross Clark and Simon J. Greenhill, editors (2011), “FUKA.2”, in “POLLEX-Online: The Polynesian Lexicon Project Online”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 50, number 2, pages 551-559

• huket
• hukte (simple past)
• hukt (past participle)

huka

1. inflection of huke:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle

Inherited from Old Norse húka. Cognate of German hocken, Dutch huiken. Doublet of hög.

huka (present hukar, preterite hukade, supine hukat, imperative huka)

1. (reflexive) to go down into or be in a (half) sitting position; to squat, to crouch

   Synonyms: (go into a squatting position) gå ner på huk, (be in a squatting position) sitta på huk

   Han hukade sig ― He crouched down

Optionally but more commonly reflexive ("De hukade" is the same as "De hukade sig")

• huka in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• huka in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• huka in Svensk ordbok (SO)