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See also: Hom, hôm, hǫm, hợm, hom., and HOM

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch hem.

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

hom (subject hy, possessive sy)

  1. third-person singular object pronoun
    1. him (referring to a male person)
      Ek sien hom nie.
      I can’t see him.
    2. 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
subjective objective possessive determiner possessive pronoun
singular 1st ek my myne
2nd jy jou joune
2nd, formal u u s’n
3rd, masc hy hom sy syne
3rd, fem sy haar hare
3rd, neut dit sy syne
plural 1st ons ons s’n
2nd julle / jul1 julle s’n
3rd hulle / hul1 hulle s’n
1. The forms jul and hul are unstressed variants. They are used mostly in possessive function, but also otherwise, chiefly when the pronoun is repeated within the same sentence.

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

  1. one, people, someone (an unspecified individual: indefinite personal pronoun)
    Hom diu que… ― It is said that…

Declension

Catalan personal pronouns and clitics
strong/subject weak (direct object) weak (indirect object) possessive
singular proclitic enclitic proclitic enclitic
1st person jo, mi3 em, m’ -me, ’m em, m’ -me, ’m meu
1st person majestic1 nós ens -nos, ’ns ens -nos, ’ns nostre
2nd person tu et, t’ -te, ’t et, t’ -te, ’t teu
2nd person formal1 vós us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
2nd person very formal2 vostè el, l’ -lo, ’l li -li seu
3rd person masculine ell el, l’ -lo, ’l li -li seu
3rd person feminine ella la, l’4 -la li -li seu
3rd person neuter ho -ho li -li seu
3rd person reflexive si es, s’ -se, ’s es, s’ -se, ’s seu
plural
1st person nosaltres ens -nos, ’ns ens -nos, ’ns nostre
2nd person vosaltres us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
2nd person formal2 vostès els -los, ’ls els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person masculine ells els -los, ’ls els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person feminine elles les -les els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person reflexive si es, s’ -se, ’s es, s’ -se, ’s seu
adverbial
ablative/genitive en, n’ -ne, ’n
locative hi -hi
1) Behaves grammatically as plural.
2) Behaves grammatically as third person. 		3) Only as object of a preposition.
4) Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.

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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”), but according to the Etymologisch Woordenboek this is extremely unlikely.

Pronunciation

Noun

hom f (plural hommen, diminutive hommetje n)

  1. (Netherlands) milt (fish semen)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Papiamentu: hom (dated)

References

  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ 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

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz.

Pronunciation

Noun

hom (plural homes or heomen)

  1. home, residence, dwelling
  2. house, housing
  3. accommodation, rest
  4. (figuratively) seat, headquarters, centre
  5. (rare) village, town
Alternative forms

Adverb

hom

  1. home, homeward

Related terms

Descendants

References

Etymology 2

Pronoun

hom

  1. Alternative form of hem (“them”)

Etymology 3

Noun

hom (plural homes)

  1. Alternative form of hamme (“enclosure, meadow”)

Etymology 4

Pronoun

hom

  1. 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

  1. 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)

  1. a little vale

References

Anagrams

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin homō. The use as a pronoun is a calque of West Germanic (compare Middle High German man, Middle Dutch men).

Noun

hom m

  1. nominative singular of home (“man”)

Pronoun

hom

  1. one

Descendants

  • French: on

Zuni

Pronoun

hom

  1. First person singular possessive (medial position)
    my
  2. First person singular object
    me

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