Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to hawk
Participle: hawked
Gerund: hawking
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | hawk |
| you | hawk |
| he;she;it | hawks |
| we | hawk |
| you | hawk |
| they | hawk |
Perfect
| I | have hawked |
| you | have hawked |
| he;she;it | has hawked |
| we | have hawked |
| you | have hawked |
| they | have hawked |
Past
| I | hawked |
| you | hawked |
| he;she;it | hawked |
| we | hawked |
| you | hawked |
| they | hawked |
Pluperfect
| I | had hawked |
| you | had hawked |
| he;she;it | had hawked |
| we | had hawked |
| you | had hawked |
| they | had hawked |
Future
| I | will hawk |
| you | will hawk |
| he;she;it | will hawk |
| we | will hawk |
| you | will hawk |
| they | will hawk |
Future Perfect
| I | will have hawked |
| you | will have hawked |
| he;she;it | will have hawked |
| we | will have hawked |
| you | will have hawked |
| they | will have hawked |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | hawk |
| you | hawk |
| he;she;it | hawk |
| we | hawk |
| you | hawk |
| they | hawk |
Perfect
| I | have hawked |
| you | have hawked |
| he;she;it | have hawked |
| we | have hawked |
| you | have hawked |
| they | have hawked |
Imperfect
| I | hawked |
| you | hawked |
| he;she;it | hawked |
| we | hawked |
| you | hawked |
| they | hawked |
Pluperfect
| I | had hawked |
| you | had hawked |
| he;she;it | had hawked |
| we | had hawked |
| you | had hawked |
| they | had hawked |
Conditional
Present
| I | would hawk |
| you | would hawk |
| he;she;it | would hawk |
| we | would hawk |
| you | would hawk |
| they | would hawk |
Perfect
| I | would have hawked |
| you | would have hawked |
| he;she;it | would have hawked |
| we | would have hawked |
| you | would have hawked |
| they | would have hawked |
Imperative
| you | hawk |
| we | Let's hawk |
| you | hawk |
Verbs conjugated like 'hawk'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'hawk'
dawk,
gawk,
hack,
hank,
hark,
haw,
hawm,
rawk,
tawk,
aik,
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. substratebor.?
3. Proto-Indo-European *kap-der.?
4. Proto-Germanic *habukaz
5. Proto-West Germanic *habuk
6. Old English hafoc
7. Middle English hauk
8. English hawk
9. Inherited from Middle English hauk, hauke, hawke, havek, from Old English hafoc, from Proto-West Germanic *habuk, from Proto-Germanic *habukaz, controversially derived from Proto-Indo-European *kopuǵos, perhaps ultimately derived from *kap- (“seize”).
10. Cognate with West Frisian hauk, German Low German Haavke, Dutch havik, German Habicht, Swedish hök, Danish høg, Norwegian Bokmål hauk, Norwegian Nynorsk hauk, Faroese heykur, Icelandic haukur, Finnish haukka, Estonian haugas; also Latin capys, capus (“bird of prey”), Albanian gabonjë, shkabë (“eagle”), Russian ко́бец (kóbec, “falcon”), Polish kobuz (“Eurasian Hobby”)).
Verbs referencing "hawk"
Albanian
shqipoj.
Sample Sentences
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To hawke, or els to hunt
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From the auter to the funt [c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 62, lines 9–10:]
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He rode astride while hawking; she falconed in the ladylike position of sidesaddle. [2003, Brenda Joyce, House of Dreams, page 175:]
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to hawk at flies
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A falcon, towering in her pride of place, / Was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed. [c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv]:]
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But whether upward to the moon they go, Or dream the winter out in caves below, Or hawk at flies elsewhere [1687, [John Dryden], “(please specify the page number)”, in The Hind and the Panther. A Poem, in Three Parts, 2nd edition, London: […] Jacob Tonson […], →OCLC:]
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Dollarbirds hawk from high bare branches. [1999, Simpson and Day, The Birds of Australia, page 366:]