hoh
English
Interjection
hoh
- Alternative form of ho
- 1900, Margaret Sidney, The Adventures of Joel Pepper
- "Hoh, hoh!" cried Ab'm, pointing a big fat finger at her, that might have been cleaner; "hear her now. An' she said her shoes warn't never goin' to wear out. Hoh, hoh!"
- 1900, Margaret Sidney, The Adventures of Joel Pepper
Alemannic German
Alternative forms
- haa, ha, heen, hä, häbä, hè
Etymology
From Middle High German and Old High German hāben, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną.
Compare German haben, Dutch hebben, West Frisian hawwe, English have, Icelandic hafa.
Verb
hoh
- (Carcoforo) to have
References
- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Jakaltek
Etymology
From Proto-Mayan *jooj.
Noun
hoh
- crow
References
- Church, Clarence; Church, Katherine (1955) Vocabulario castellano-jacalteco, jacalteco-castellano (in Spanish), Guatemala C. A.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, pages 17; 21
Old English
Etymology 1
Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄h, from Proto-Germanic *hanhaz.
Alternative forms
- hō, hōg
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xoːx/, [hoːx]
Noun
hōh m
- The heel (rear of a foot)
- Synonym: hēla
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | hōh | hōs |
| accusative | hōh | hōs |
| genitive | hōs | hōna |
| dative | hō | hōm, hōum |
Related terms
- hēla
- hōhsinu
Descendants
- Middle English: hough, ho, hoche, hogh, hoȝ, hokke, hoo, houȝ, houe, howe, howghe, howh
- English: hough, hoff, hock
- Scots: hoch, houch
Etymology 2
Related to hōn (“to hang”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xoːx/, [hoːx]
Noun
hōh m
- promontory, cliff
Declension
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | hōh | hōs |
| accusative | hōh | hōs |
| genitive | hōs | hōna |
| dative | hō | hōm, hōum |
Descendants
- Middle English: hough, ho, hogh, hoghe, how
- English: heugh; hoe, hogh, hough, how
- Scots: heuch
References
- Angus Cameron, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey, editors (2018), “hōh”, in Dictionary of Old English: A to I
, Toronto: University of Toronto, OCLC 213811593.
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *hauh, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz (compare Old Dutch hōh, Old English hēah, Old Dutch hōh, Old Norse hár), from Proto-Indo-European *kewk-, a suffixed form of *kew-. The Indo-European root is also the source of Sanskrit कुच (kuca, “female breast”), Lithuanian kaukas, Russian куча (kuča).
For more Germanic cognates, see Proto-Germanic *hauhaz.
Adjective
hōh
- high
Derived terms
- hōhī
Descendants
- Middle High German: hōch, hō
- Alemannic German: hooch
- Walser: hoch, hòch
- Swabian: hauch
- Bavarian:
- Cimbrian: hoach, hòach
- Mòcheno: heach
- Northern Bavarian: [hɔːu̯ɣ̊], [ˈhɛi̯xɐ], [ˈhɛi̯kst]
- Central Franconian: huh, hiech, hieh
- Hunsrik: hogh
- Luxembourgish: héich, héi
- German: hoch
- Rhine Franconian: houch, hauch, hoch, hok, houk, huch, huk
- Frankfurterisch: [hoːx], [heːʒ̥æ̆], [he(ː)kst]
- Pennsylvania German: hooch
- Vilamovian: huch
- Yiddish: הויך (hoykh)
- Alemannic German: hooch
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *hauh, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz (compare Old High German hōh, Old English hēah, Old Dutch hōh, Old Norse hár), from Proto-Indo-European *kewk-, a suffixed form of *kew-. The Indo-European root is also the source of Sanskrit कुच (kuca, “female breast”), Lithuanian kaukas, Russian куча (kuča).
For more Germanic cognates: see Proto-Germanic *hauhaz.
Adjective
hōh
- high
Declension
| Strong declension | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| gender | masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
| case | singular | plural | singular | plural | singular | plural |
| nominative | hōh | hōhe, hōha | hōh | hōha | hōh | hōh, hōha |
| accusative | hōhan, hōhen | hōha, hōhe | hōha | hōha | hōh | hōh, hōha |
| genitive | hōhes, hōhas | hōharo, hōhoro, hōhero | hōhara, hōharo | hōharo, hōhoro, hōhero | hōhes, hōhas | hōharo, hōhoro, hōhero |
| dative | hōhumu, hōhum, hōhun, hōhun, hōhon, hōhen, hōhan | hōhun, hōhon, hōhum | hōharo, hōharu, hōhara | hōhun, hōhon | hōhumu, hōhum, hōhun, hōhun, hōhon, hōhen, hōhan | hōhun, hōhon, hōhum |
| Weak declension | ||||||
| gender | masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
| case | singular | plural | singular | plural | singular | plural |
| nominative | hōho, hōha | hōhon, hōhun | hōha, hōhe | hōhon, hōhun, hōhan | hōha, hōhe | hōhon, hōhun |
| accusative | hōhon, hōhan | hōhon, hōhun | hōhun, hōhon, hōhan | hōhon, hōhun, hōhan | hōha, hōhe | hōhon, hōhun |
| genitive | hōhen, hōhan | hōhono, hōheno | hōhun, hōhan, hōhen | hōhono | hōhen, hōhan | hōhono, hōheno |
| dative | hōhon, hōhen, hōhan | hōhon, hōhun | hōhun, hōhan | hōhon, hōhun | hōhon, hōhen, hōhan | hōhon, hōhun |
Descendants
- Middle Low German: hôch, hô
- German Low German: hooch, hoog
- Plautdietsch: hüag, huag