hecken

== German == === Etymology === From Middle High German hecken, from Proto-Germanic *hakjaną. Cognate with English hatch, Swedish häcka. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈhɛkən/, [ˈhɛ.kŋ̍], [-k(ə)n] Hyphenation: he‧cken; pre-1996: hek‧ken === Verb === hecken (weak, third-person singular present heckt, past tense heckte, past participle geheckt, auxiliary haben) (intransitive, of animals or derogatory of people) to breed, give birth, multiply, especially in large numbers (intransitive, figurative, of funds) to increase, multiply (transitive) dated form of aushecken (“to hatch, devise, think up”) ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Derived terms ==== aushecken Heckpfennig === Further reading === “hecken” in Duden online “hecken”, in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache‎[4] (in German) “hecken” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961. Kluge, Friedrich (1989), “hecken”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 298