Hook

See also: hook and hòòk

English

Etymology

• As an English surname, from the noun hook.
• As a Swedish surname, from hök (“hawk”).
• As a Dutch surname, Americanized from Hoek; compare Vanhook.

Proper noun

Hook (countable and uncountable, plural Hooks)

1. A surname.
2. A number of places in the United Kingdom:
   1. A hamlet in Wimblington parish, Fenland district, Cambridgeshire (OS grid ref TF4293).
   2. A hamlet in Chardstock parish, East Devon district, Devon, England (OS grid ref ST3005).
   3. A village and civil parish near Goole, East Riding of Yorkshire, England (OS grid ref SE7625).
   4. A suburb in the borough of Kingston upon Thames, Greater London, England (OS grid ref TQ1865).
   5. A large village and civil parish in Hart district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU7254).
   6. A hamlet in Fareham borough, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU5005).
   7. A hamlet in Timsbury parish, Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset (OS grid ref ST6758).
   8. A village in Lydiard Tregoze parish, near Wootton Bassett, Wiltshire, England (OS grid ref SU0784).
   9. A village and community in Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SM9711).
3. A rural locality in South Canterbury, Canterbury, New Zealand, on the Hook River.

Translations

surname

• Persian: هوک (fa) (huk)

Statistics

• According to the 2010 United States Census, Hook is the 2680^th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 13437 individuals. Hook is most common among White (90.12%) individuals.

See also

• Hook Norton

Anagrams

• Khoo, OHKO

German

Etymology

From Middle Low German hôk (“corner, angle”), from Old Saxon hōk, from Proto-West Germanic *hōk, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz. Compare the sense “small cluster of houses” in cognate Dutch hoek.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hoːk/

Noun

Hook m (strong, genitive Hookes or Hooks, plural Höke)

1. (regional, Westphalia, chiefly in toponyms) a small cluster of farms, often no more than three to five

Usage notes

• The land shared by a Hook is typically called Esch.

Declension

Declension of Hook [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Hook	die	Höke
genitive	eines	des	Hookes, Hooks	der	Höke
dative	einem	dem	Hook, Hooke1	den	Höken
accusative	einen	den	Hook	die	Höke

¹Now rare, see notes.

German Low German

Etymology

From Middle Low German hôk, from Old Saxon hōk, from Proto-West Germanic *hōk, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz. More at hook.

Noun

Hook m (plural Hoken)

1. corner
2. angle
3. tip of land; headland; point; foreland