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Estonian
Etymology
From earlier *hõbu, from Proto-Finnic *hëpo. Cognate to Finnish hepo.
Noun
hobu (genitive hobu, partitive hobu)
- (poetic, otherwise only in compounds) horse, equine
Declension
Declension of hobu (type
elu)
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Further reading
- “hobu”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
- “hobu”, in [ÕS] Eesti õigekeelsussõnaraamat ÕS 2018 [Estonian Spelling Dictionary] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2018, →ISBN
- hobu in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)