hove

See also: Hove, hově, høve, and ho ve

English

Pronunciation

(UK) IPA^(key): /həʊv/
Audio (southern England) (file)
(General American) IPA^(key): /hoʊv/
Rhymes: -əʊv

Etymology 1

From Middle English hoven (“to linger, wait, hover, move aside, entertain, cherish, foster”), from Old English *hofian (“to receive into one's house”), from Proto-Germanic *hufōną (“to house, lodge”), from Proto-Germanic *hufą (“hill, height, farm, dwelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *keup- (“to arch, bend, buckle”). Cognate with Old Frisian hovia (“to receive into one's home, entertain”), Old Dutch hoven (“to receive into one's home, entertain”). Related to Old English hof (“court, house, dwelling”). More at hovel.

Verb

hove (third-person singular simple present hoves, present participle hoving, simple past and past participle hoved)

(obsolete, intransitive) To remain suspended in air, water etc.; to float, to hover.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
  As shee arrived on the roring shore, / In minde to leape into the mighty maine, / A little bote lay hoving her before […].
(obsolete, intransitive) To wait, linger.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter X, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII:
  Alle these xv knyghtes were knyghtes of the table round / Soo these with moo other came in to gyders / and bete on bak the kynge of Northumberland and the kynge of Northwalys / whan sir launcelot sawe this as he houed in a lytil leued woode / thenne he sayd vnto syre lauayn / see yonder is a company of good knyghtes
  (please add an English translation of this quote)
(obsolete, intransitive) To move on or by.
(intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To remain; delay.
(intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To remain stationary (usually on horseback).

Alternative forms

huve, huff, houf (Scotland)

Etymology 2

From Middle English hoven, alteration (due to hove, hoven, past tense and past participle of heven (“to heave”)). More at heave.

Verb

hove (third-person singular simple present hoves, present participle hoving, simple past and past participle hoved)

(transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To raise; lift; hold up.
(intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To rise.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto II”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
  Astond he stood, and vp his haire did houe, / And with that suddein horror could no member moue.

Etymology 3

Inflected forms.

Verb

hove

(nautical) simple past tense and past participle of heave
(obsolete or dialectal) simple past tense and past participle of heave
- 1884 December 10, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter VIII, in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: (Tom Sawyer’s Comrade) […], London: Chatto & Windus, […], OCLC 458431182:
  Pretty soon he gapped and stretched himself and hove off the blanket, and it was Miss Watson's Jim! I bet I was glad to see him.

Synonyms

heaved

Middle Dutch

Noun

hōve

inflection of hof:
1. dative singular
2. nominative/accusative/genitive plural

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English hōfe.

Noun

hōve (uncountable)

ground-ivy

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /²ho.ʋə/

Verb

hove

supine of hevja

Participle

hove

neuter of hoven

Adjective

hove

neuter of hoven

Noun

hove n (definite singular hovet, indefinite plural hove, definite plural hova)

(dialectal) alternative form of hovud (“head”)
- 1974, Horvei, Knut, Gann, [Oslo]: Noregs boklag, page 91:
  Berre ikkje Kreksen vart eit hove kortare [...]
  Lest Kreksen became a head shorter.

Old Frisian

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈhove/

Noun

hove

dative singular of hof

References

Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN