háček

The story

1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*keg-
2. Proto-Germanic · derived from*hakô“hook”
3. Old High German · derived fromhāko“hook”
4. Middle High German · derived fromhāken
5. Czech · borrowed fromháček“háček”
6. English todayháček

First attested in 1951; from the Czech háček (“háček”, literally “little hook”), the diminutive of hák (“hook”) (from Middle High German hāken, from Old High German hāko (“hook”), from Proto-Germanic *hakô (“hook”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook”)) + the diminutive suffix -ek. Cognate with and formed like English hooklet and German Häkchen. Also cognate with Old English haca (“hook, door-fastening”) and modern English hake (more information below).

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