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Translingual
Symbol
hom
- (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Homa.
See also
English
Noun
hom (uncountable)
- Alternative form of haoma (“sacred plant”)
See also
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch hem.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
hom (subject hy, possessive sy)
- third-person singular object pronoun
- him (referring to a male person)
Ek sien hom nie.- I can’t see him.
- it (referring to a non-personal noun)
Sy het my die boek gegee, maar ek het hom nog nie gelees nie.- She gave me the book, but I haven’t read it yet.
Synonyms
See also
Afrikaans personal pronouns
Catalan
Etymology
Inherited from Old Catalan hom, from the nominative case of Latin homō (“man”). Its pronominal use is of Germanic origin. Compare Old English man (“one, they, people”), reduced form of Old English mann (“man, person”); French on; German man (“one, they, people”); Dutch men (“one, they, people”).
Doublet of home (“man”), from Old Catalan (h)ome(n), that continues the accusative case form hominem. There are very few Latin nouns that have been inherited in more than one case form, others include drac/dragó and res/re.
Pronunciation
Pronoun
hom
- one, people, someone (an unspecified individual: indefinite personal pronoun)
- Hom diu que… ― It is said that…
Declension
Catalan personal pronouns and clitics
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strong/subject
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weak (direct object)
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weak (indirect object)
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possessive
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singular
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proclitic
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enclitic
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proclitic
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enclitic
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1st person
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jo, mi3
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em, m’
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-me, ’m
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em, m’
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-me, ’m
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meu
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1st person majestic1
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nós
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ens
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-nos, ’ns
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ens
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-nos, ’ns
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nostre
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2nd person
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tu
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et, t’
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-te, ’t
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et, t’
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-te, ’t
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teu
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2nd person formal1
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vós
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us
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-vos, -us
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us
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-vos, -us
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vostre
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2nd person very formal2
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vostè
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el, l’
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-lo, ’l
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li
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-li
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seu
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3rd person masculine
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ell
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el, l’
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-lo, ’l
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li
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-li
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seu
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3rd person feminine
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ella
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la, l’4
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-la
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li
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-li
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seu
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3rd person neuter
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ho
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-ho
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li
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-li
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seu
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3rd person reflexive
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si
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es, s’
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-se, ’s
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es, s’
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-se, ’s
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seu
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plural
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1st person
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nosaltres
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ens
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-nos, ’ns
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ens
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-nos, ’ns
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nostre
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2nd person
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vosaltres
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us
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-vos, -us
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us
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-vos, -us
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vostre
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2nd person formal2
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vostès
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els
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-los, ’ls
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els
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-los, ’ls
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seu
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3rd person masculine
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ells
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els
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-los, ’ls
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els
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-los, ’ls
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seu
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3rd person feminine
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elles
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les
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-les
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els
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-los, ’ls
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seu
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3rd person reflexive
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si
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es, s’
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-se, ’s
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es, s’
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-se, ’s
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seu
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adverbial
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ablative/genitive
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en, n’
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-ne, ’n
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locative
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hi
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-hi
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1) Behaves grammatically as plural. 2) Behaves grammatically as third person.
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3) Only as object of a preposition. 4) Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.
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See also
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch homme, identical to homme (“mold”), of uncertain origin, but probably related to Old Norse húm (“dusky, twilight”), from Proto-Germanic *skim- (“to shine-”), which has been compared to Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”),[1] but according to the Etymologisch Woordenboek this is extremely unlikely.[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
hom f (plural hommen, diminutive hommetje n)
- (Netherlands) milt (fish semen)
Derived terms
Descendants
- → Papiamentu: hom (dated)
References
- ^ Southern, M. R. V. (1999). Sub-grammatical survival : Indo-European s-mobile and its regeneration in Germanic. Washington: Institute for the Study of Man, p. 199
- ^ Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “hom”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
Hanunoo
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhum/
- Rhymes: -um
- Syllabification: hom
Pronoun
hom (Hanunoo spelling ᜱᜳᜫ᜴) (literary)
- Alternative form of ho
Further reading
- Conklin, Harold C. (1953) Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 129
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz.
Pronunciation
Noun
hom (plural homes or heomen)
- home, residence, dwelling
- house, housing
- accommodation, rest
- (figuratively) seat, headquarters, centre
- (rare) village, town
Adverb
hom
- home, homeward
Descendants
References
- “hōm, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
- “hōm, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
Pronoun
hom
- Alternative form of hem (“them”)
Etymology 3
Noun
hom (plural homes)
- Alternative form of hamme (“enclosure, meadow”)
Etymology 4
Pronoun
hom
- Alternative form of whom (“who, whom”, accusative)
Mòcheno
Etymology
From Middle High German haben, from Old High German hāben, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (“to have; to hold”). Cognate with German haben, English have.
Verb
hom
- to have
- Mu i hom a kòmmer as tschins? ― Can I have a room to rent?
References
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology
From Old Norse hvammr. Doublet of kvam.
Noun
hom m (definite singular homen, indefinite plural homar, definite plural homane)
- a little vale
References
- “hom” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Anagrams
Old English
Noun
hom f
- Alternative form of ham
Old French
Etymology
From Latin homō. The use as a pronoun is a calque from West Germanic (compare Middle High German man, Middle Dutch men).
Noun
hom m
- nominative singular of home (“man”)
Pronoun
hom
- one
Descendants
Zuni
Pronoun
hom
- First person singular possessive (medial position)
- my
- First person singular object
- me