keg-

Hook, tooth.

1.

a. hake, from Old English haca, hook, akin to Old Norse haki, hook;

b. harquebus, from Middle Dutch hake, hook. Both a and b from Germanic *hakan-.

2.

a. hook, from Old English hōc, hook;

b. hooker¹, from Middle Dutch hōk, hoec, hook;

c. haček; Hakenkreuz, from Old High German hāko, hook. a-c all from Germanic lengthened form *hōka-.

3. hatchel, heckle, from Middle Dutch hekel, hatchel, a flax comb with long metal hooklike teeth, from Germanic *hakila-.

4. hack¹, from Old English -haccian, to hack to pieces as with a hooked instrument, from Germanic *hakkijan.

 

[Pokorny keg- 537.]

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