Feminine
Hacke
Meaning
heel (of the foot or shoe)
Concepts
Synonyms
Frequency
Dialects
Basel-Landschaft
haggi
Basel-Landschaft
haieli
Basel-Landschaft
heieli
Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch
Hyphenated as
Ha‧cke
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈhakə/
Etymology
In summary
15th century, from Middle Low German hakke, from Proto-Germanic *hak(k)-, perhaps related to *hakô. Cognate with Dutch hak. The word also existed in Old High German as hakka (“animal heel”), but this had no attested continuation in Middle High German.
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