houe
See also: houé
French
Etymology
From Old French houe, from Frankish *hauwā (“hoe, mattock”).
Pronunciation
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /u/
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Noun
houe f (plural houes)
- hoe (gardening tool)
Verb
houe
- inflection of houer:
- first-person singular/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- second-person singular imperative
Derived terms
- houer
- Ouellette
Further reading
- “houe”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Middle English
Noun
houe
- Alternative form of hough (“hough, hock”)
Old French
Alternative forms
- hoe, howe, owe
Etymology
Borrowed from Frankish *hauwā (“hoe, mattock”).
Noun
houe f (oblique plural houes, nominative singular houe, nominative plural houes)
- hoe (farming implement)
Descendants
- Middle French: hoe, houe
- French: houe
- Norman: hoe, haoue (Guernésiais)
- Picard: hau (Ch'ti)
- Walloon: awe, hawe
- → Middle English: howe, houwe, howwe
- English: hoe
- ⇒ Old French: hoel, houwel
- Middle French: houel, hoyau, hoeau
- Middle French: hoyau
- → Middle Dutch: hauel, hauweel
- → Dutch: houweel
- Middle French: houel, hoyau, hoeau
- ⇒ Old French: houet
- Norman: houette (Jersiais)
- ⇒ Old French: houer
- Middle French: houer
- French: houer
- Norman: haouaïr (Guernésiais), hauwer (Hennégois)
- → Middle English: howen, howwen
- English: hoe
- Middle French: houer