hatch

hatch · noun, verb¹

1. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*hakkju
2. Old English · inherited fromhæċ
3. Middle English · inherited fromhacche
4. English todayhatch

From Middle English hacche, hache, from Old English hæċ, from Proto-West Germanic *hakkju (compare Dutch hek ‘gate, railing’, Low German Heck ‘pasture gate, farmyard gate’), variant of *haggju ‘hedge’. More at hedge.

hatch · verb, noun²

1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*hakjaną
2. Old English · inherited from*hæċċan
3. Middle English · inherited fromhacche
4. English todayhatch

From Middle English hacche, hacchen (“to propagate”), from Old English *hæċċan, āhaċċian (“to peck out; hatch”), from Proto-Germanic *hakjaną. Cognate with German hecken ‘to breed, spawn’, Danish hække (“to hatch”), Swedish häcka (“to breed”); akin to Latvian kakale ‘penis’.

hatch · verb³

1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*hakkōną“to chop; hack”
2. Frankish · derived from*hakōn
3. Old French · derived fromhacher
4. Middle French · derived fromhacher“to chop, slice up, incise with fine lines”
5. English todayhatch

From Middle French hacher (“to chop, slice up, incise with fine lines”), from Old French hacher, hachier, from Frankish *hakōn, *hakkōn, from Proto-Germanic *hakkōną (“to chop; hack”). More at hack.

Hatch · proper noun⁴

English surname from the root of hatch (“gate”).

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