hókken

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse hvílíkr, from Proto-Germanic *hwilīkaz (“what kind of, what sort of”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [hɞ̀kʰʲːe̞n], [hɞ́kʰʲːe̞n], [hókʰʲːe̞n], [hòkʰʲːe̞n]
    Rhymes: -ʊ̀kːen, -ʊ́kːen, -ʊ̀kːɛn, -ʊ́kːɛn

Pronoun

hókken m (feminine hókkar, neuter hókkä, genitive hókkens, feminine hókkars, neuter hókkäs)

  1. (interrogative) what, which, who
    Hóken ba däg skimmp ópp lärtä säddana?
    Who asked you to cut up the plain weave like that?
  2. (relative) who, whom, which, whatever, whichever

Derived terms
  • hókkendera (“whichever”)
  • hókkävorä (“whichever of us; each of us”)
  • likhókken, likthókken (“either just as much”)

References
    • Rietz, Johan Ernst, “Hókken”, in Svenskt dialektlexikon: ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket [Swedish dialectal lexicon: a dictionary for the Swedish lects] (in Swedish), 1962 edition, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, published 1862–1867, page 260
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