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Irish
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Onomatopoeic.
Interjection
hois!
- shoo! (said to a cow being driven)
Further reading
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1927) “huis”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 2nd edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “hois”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
- Sjoestedt, M. L. (1931) Phonétique d’un parler irlandais de Kerry (in French), Paris: Librairie Ernest Leroux, page 49
Etymology 2
Noun
hois m
- h-prothesized form of ois