hoh

English

Interjection

hoh

1. Alternative form of ho
   • 1900, Margaret Sidney, The Adventures of Joel Pepper:

     "Hoh, hoh!" cried Ab'm, pointing a big fat finger at her, that might have been cleaner; "hear her now. An' she said her shoes warn't never goin' to wear out. Hoh, hoh!"

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• haa, ha, heen, hä, häbä, hè

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German hāben, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną.

Compare German haben, Dutch hebben, West Frisian hawwe, English have, Icelandic hafa.

Verb

hoh

1. (Carcoforo) to have

References

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter , Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Jakaltek

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *jooj.

Noun

hoh

1. crow

References

• Church, Clarence, Church, Katherine (1955) Vocabulario castellano-jacalteco, jacalteco-castellano‎ (in Spanish), Guatemala C. A.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 17; 21

Old English

Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄h, from Proto-Germanic *hanhaz.

Alternative forms

• hō, hōg

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xoːx/,

Noun

hōh m

1. The heel (rear of a foot)

   Synonym: hēla

Declension

Derived terms

• hōhsċanca

Related terms

• hēla
• hōhsinu

Descendants

• Middle English: hough, ho, hoche, hogh, hoȝ, hokke, hoo, houȝ, houe, howe, howghe, howh
  • English: hough, hoff, hock
  • Scots: hoch, houch
  • ⇒ Yola: houghany

Etymology 2

Related to hōn (“to hang”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xoːx/,

Noun

hōh m

1. promontory, cliff

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: hough, ho, hogh, hoghe, how
  • English: heugh; hoe, hogh, hough, how
  • Scots: heuch

References

• Angus Cameron, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey, editors (2018), “hōh”, in Dictionary of Old English: A to I ⁠‎, Toronto: University of Toronto, →OCLC.

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hauh, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz (compare Old Dutch hōh, Old English hēah, Old Dutch hōh, Old Norse hár), from Proto-Indo-European *kewk-, a suffixed form of *kew-. The Indo-European root is also the source of Sanskrit कुच (kuca, “female breast”), Lithuanian kaukas, Russian куча (kuča).

For more Germanic cognates, see Proto-Germanic *hauhaz.

Adjective

hōh

1. high

Derived terms

• hōhī

Descendants

• Middle High German: hōch, hō
  • Alemannic German: hooch

    Walser: hoch, hòch

    Swabian: hauch

  • Bavarian:

    Cimbrian: hoach, hòach

    Mòcheno: heach

    Northern Bavarian: , (comparative) , (superlative)

  • Central Franconian: huh, hiech, hieh

    Hunsrik: hogh

    Luxembourgish: héich, héi

  • German: hoch
  • Rhine Franconian: houch, hauch, hoch, hok, houk, huch, huk

    Frankfurterisch: , (comparative) , (superlative)

    Pennsylvania German: hooch

  • Vilamovian: huch
  • Yiddish: הויך (hoykh)

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hauh, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz (compare Old High German hōh, Old English hēah, Old Dutch hōh, Old Norse hár), from Proto-Indo-European *kewk-, a suffixed form of *kew-. The Indo-European root is also the source of Sanskrit कुच (kuca, “female breast”), Lithuanian kaukas, Russian куча (kuča).

For more Germanic cognates: see Proto-Germanic *hauhaz.

Adjective

hōh

1. high

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: hôch, hô
  • German Low German: hooch, hoog
  • Plautdietsch: hüag, huag

Yurok

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɔh/

Verb

hoh

1. uninflected form of hohkuemek'