Etymology

hawkish

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Today it means: Resembling a hawk in appearance or behaviour. Full definition →

English hawk ← Middle English hauk ← Old English hafoc
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European*kap-der.?
  2. Proto-Germanic*habukaz
  3. Proto-West Germanic*habuk
  4. Old Englishhafoc
  5. Middle Englishhauk
  6. Englishhawk
  7. English todayhawkish

From hawk + -ish.

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