hiccup

Senso (Inglese)

Noun

1. A spasm of the diaphragm, or the resulting sound.
2. A spasm of the diaphragm, or the resulting sound.
3. (broadly) Any spasm or sudden change.
4. (informal) A minor obstacle or setback.

Verb

1. (intransitive) To produce a hiccup; have the hiccups.
2. (transitive) To say with a hiccup.
3. (intransitive) To produce an abortive sound like a hiccup.

Concetti

singhiozzo

singhiozzare

😭

singulto

avere il singhiozzo

imprevisto

contrattempo

stranguglione

sinonimi

hiccough

singultus

burp

belch

howl

kink

retch

stand on tiptoe

hickup

catch

hiccups

hitch

Traduzioni

hoquet

hipo

hoqueter

Schluckauf

hik

hikken

soluçar

soluço

😭

avoir le hoquet

singlot

hicksen

hipar

Schluckauf haben

singultus

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/ˈhɪkʌp/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Affine scozzese: hick

Affine frisone occidentale: hik

Affine olandese: hik

Affine Middle Low German: hükup

Affine basso tedesco: hick

Affine tedesco: hicksen

Affine tedesco svizzero: Hidsgi

Affine danese: hikke

Affine svedese: hicka

Affine islandese: hiksti

In summary

From earlier hickop, alteration of earlier hicket, hyckock, from hic (onomatopoeic) + -ock (diminutive suffix).
Akin to Scots hick, hix (“hiccup”), West Frisian hik (“hiccup”), Dutch hik (“hiccup”), Middle Low German hükup, huckup, hueckup (modern Low German hick (“hiccup”)), German hicksen (“to hiccup”, verb), Alemannic German Hidsgi (“hiccup”), Danish hikke (“hiccup”), Swedish hicka (“hiccup”), hicka (“to hiccup”, verb), Icelandic hiksti (“hiccup”).
Displaced yex, from Middle English yexen, ȝisken, ȝixen, ȝoxen (“to hiccup”), from Old English ġiscian, ġeocsian (“to hiccup”).