Hack - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Wiktionary, the free dictionary
- As a German and Dutch surname, from the old Germanic name Hacco, shortened from names derived from *hakkju (“enclosure, hedge”).
- Also as a German and Dutch surname, occupational surname for a butcher or woodcutter, see Hacker.
- As a north/Low German surname, variant of Haack.
- Also as a north/Low German surname, variant of Heck.
- Also as a north/Low German surname for someone who lived by a marsh, from hach, hack (“boggy water”).
- As an English surname, from the Middle English personal name Acke with a prosthetic H-, itself of North Germanic origin and a pet form of Old Norse Áskell, see Haskell.
- Also as an English surname, from Middle Dutch Hakke, denasalized from Hanke, a West Flemish and Picard form of John.
- Also as an English surname, from the Middle English adjective hak (“ruthless, unsparing”).
- As a Jewish surname, from Yiddish האַק (hak, “axe”).
Hack (plural Hacks)
- A surname.
Clipping of Hackfleisch.
Hack n (strong, genitive Hacks, no plural)
Hack m (strong, genitive Hacks or Hack, plural Hacks)
Hack m (strong, genitive Hacks, plural Hacks)
Pennsylvania German
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From Middle Low German hakke, from Proto-Germanic *hak(k)-, perhaps related to *hakô. Compare German Hacke, Dutch hak.
Hack f (plural Hacke)
Hack m (plural Hacke)