köken: From Middle High German vurch, from Old High German furh, from Proto-West Germanic *furh, from Proto-Germanic *furhs. The word is an original root noun and shows rests of this declension in Middle High German alongside i-stem forms both with an without umlaut (vürhe, vurhe). From these, weak plurals (vürhen, vurhen) and new singulars in -e were later derived. Prevocalic -ch- < -h- is chiefly…
köken: From Germanic *takka; see German Zacke, Dutch takk, West Frisian tak, Middle Dutch tacke, all from Proto-West Germanic *takkō (“twig, branch, shoot”).
The action of hacka (to hack, chop); a chop. · notch, nick, recess, grove, incision (intrinsically caused by a chop and the like)
köken: From Old Swedish hak, action of Swedish hacka, Old Swedish hakka (to hack, chop). Compare hugg (“chop”) to hugga (“to chop”), snitt (“cut”) to snitta (“to cut”). Related to hake (“hook, something sharp”)
Jag vurpa in i soffbordet och fick ett fint hack i pannan.