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Finnish
Verb
hio
- inflection of hioa:
- present active indicative connegative
- second-person singular present imperative
- second-person singular present active imperative connegative
Anagrams
Hawaiian
Pronunciation
Verb
hio
- to blow
Indonesian
Etymology
From Hokkien, specifically Zhangzhou Hokkien 香 (hioⁿ, “joss stick; incense”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhio̯/
- Hyphenation: hio
Noun
hio (first-person possessive hioku, second-person possessive hiomu, third-person possessive hionya)
- (Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism) joss stick; incense
- Synonyms: dupa, kemenyan, luban, setanggi
Further reading
Japanese
Romanization
hio
- Rōmaji transcription of ひお
Latin
Etymology
From Proto-Italic *hiāō, from earlier *xiao (to differentiate it from a later form *hiāō if the shift */x/ > */h/ in the Italic languages already happened during late Proto-Italic), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₁i-eh₂-yé-ti, from *ǵʰeh₂- (“to gape, be wide open”). Cognates include Ancient Greek χάσκω (kháskō), Tocharian A śew, Tocharian B kāyā, Lithuanian žioti, Russian зия́ть (zijátʹ), Sanskrit विजिहीते (vijihīte), and Proto-Germanic *gīnaną, *ganōną (English yawn)
Pronunciation
Verb
hiō (present infinitive hiāre, perfect active hiāvī, supine hiātum); first conjugation, no passive
- to yawn, gape
- to stand open
- (of speech) to pause, connect badly
- (figuratively) to be amazed, gape in wonder
- to bawl out, utter, sing
Conjugation
Derived terms
References
- “hio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “hio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- hio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
Middle English
Pronoun
hio
- Alternative form of he (“they”)
Old English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hijō f (“this, this one”).
Pronunciation
Pronoun
hīo f (accusative hīe, genitive hiere, dative hiere)
- she
- it (when the thing being referred to is feminine)
Descendants