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hauk.

hawk (bird of prey)

4 characters1 syllables approx.Norsk bokmål language

Meaning & usage

noun/hæʉk/
  1. hawk (bird of prey)

    masculine
    Ser du haukene på himmelen?
Where this word comes from

From dialectal Norwegian (partially through Nynorsk hauk), from Old Norse haukr, from Proto-Germanic *habukaz (“hawk”), likely derived from Proto-Indo-European *kap- (“to seize”).

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