Huk (topography)
A Huk referred topographical sense a corner or an edge, especially in the course of a coast ( Low German Huk = "hook", see. Engl. Hook here, "a reaching into the sea promontory"; cf. niederländ.. Hoek [pronunciation as in German and English]).
The term is mainly used in northern Germany and can also be found in the language of sailors .
It is also part of proper names, with which corresponding formations are characterized; So there is the Hohe Wieschendorfer Huk , the Stülper Huk , the Tarnewitzer Huk and the Jäckelberg-Huk in the Wismar Bay . Huk is synonymous with Afrikaans and Dutch Hoek ( angle , corner ), which z. B. in Windhoek (capital of Namibia ) and in Hoek van Holland .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sheet R, on www.sh-tourist.de, Lexicon of Name Derivations ( Memento of the original from October 26, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
