hogg

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See also: högg, høgg, and Hogg

English

Etymology

See hogget (“young sheep”)

Pronunciation

Noun

hogg (plural hoggs)

  1. A young sheep of either gender, until it cuts its first two teeth; a hogget.

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

Verb

hogg

  1. simple past of hogge
  2. imperative of hogge

Norwegian Nynorsk

Verb

hogg

  1. inflection of hogga:
    1. past
    2. imperative

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly derived from Old Norse hǫggva (“to strike, chop, cut”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną (“to hew, forge”).

Alternatively, perhaps from Celtic, compare Welsh hwch (“sow”), Cornish hoch (“pig”) (whence probably modern English hoggan (“pork pasty”));[1] however, the possibility of British Celtic origin is regarded by OED as "improbable.".[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

hogg m (nominative plural hoggas)

  1. hog, especially a castrated male (family Suidae)

Declension

Strong a-stem:

singular plural
nominative hogg hoggas
accusative hogg hoggas
genitive hogges hogga
dative hogge hoggum

Descendants

  • Middle English: hogge, hog

References

  1. ^ Angus Stevenson, Oxford Dictionary of English (2010), page 834
  2. ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “hog”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
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