Basque

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): (Navarro-Lapurdian) /hika/ [hi.ka]
  • IPA(key): (Southern) /ika/ [i.ka]
  • Rhymes: -ika
  • Hyphenation: hi‧ka

Etymology 1

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Unknown.

Noun

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hika inan

  1. muddy area, mire
    Synonym: lokatz
Declension
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Etymology 2

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From hi (you, informal second person singular pronoun) +‎ -ka.

Noun

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hika inan

  1. a mode of address using the pronoun hi
    Synonym: hitano
Usage notes
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This mode of address is primarily used between children, siblings, and people who have been friends since childhood. When addressing someone using this pronoun, all verb forms must be in allocutive agreement. For examples see hi.

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Further reading

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Chickasaw

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A bilingual stop sign.

Etymology

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From the same root as hili, suffixed with -ka.

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Verb

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hika

  1. (active voice, intransitive) to stop, to cease, to halt
  2. (active voice, intransitive) to stand up, to rise (punctually)
  3. (active voice, transitive, nominal object) to stop in, to stop at

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Interjection

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hika

  1. whoa

Icelandic

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Etymology

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Related to huka (to cower, squat), hokra (to creep), all from Old Norse haukr.

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Verb

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hika (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative hikaði, supine hikað)

  1. to hesitate

Conjugation

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References

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  • Vol. 17, No. 1, Language Dissertation No. 32: Germanic-Balto-Slavic Etyma (Jan. - Mar., 1941), pp. 5-63

Japanese

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Romanization

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hika

  1. Rōmaji transcription of ひか

Tagalog

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Etymology 1

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Noun

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hikà (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜃ)

  1. asthma
    Synonyms: asma, hapo
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Etymology 2

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Contraction of halika.

Pronunciation

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Interjection

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hika (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜒᜃ)

  1. Alternative form of halika