hoog

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Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch hoog.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɦʊəχ/
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Adjective

hoog (attributive hoë, comparative hoër, superlative hoogste)

  1. high

Antonyms

Dutch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Dutch hooch, the original inflected stem hō- reanalysed by analogy with the uninflected form because of word-final devoicing. From Old Dutch hōh, from Proto-West Germanic *hauh, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz.

Cognate with German hoch, West Frisian heech, Saterland Frisian hag, English high, Danish høj.

Pronunciation

Adjective

hoog (comparative hoger, superlative hoogst)

  1. high
    Antonym: laag
    De 887 meter hoge Mount Scenery is het hoogste punt in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden. ― The 887-metres-high Mount Scenery is the highest place in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
    Het zou te hoog gegrepen zijn om drie talen tegelijkertijd te leren. ― Learning three languages simultaneously would be aiming too high.

Declension

Declension of hoog
uninflected hoog
inflected hoge
comparative hoger
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial hoog hoger het hoogst
het hoogste
indefinite m./f. sing. hoge hogere hoogste
n. sing. hoog hoger hoogste
plural hoge hogere hoogste
definite hoge hogere hoogste
partitive hoogs hogers —

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: hoog
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: hogo
  • Jersey Dutch: hôx
  • Negerhollands: hoog, hok
  • Skepi Creole Dutch: hug, oag

Estonian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *hooku.

Pronunciation

Noun

hoog (genitive hoo, partitive hoogu)

  1. impetus
  2. acceleration
  3. speed, velocity
  4. gust
  5. fit
  6. seizure
  7. attack, assault

Declension

Declension of hoog (ÕS type 22e/riik, g-ø gradation)
singular plural
nominative hoog hood
accusative nom.
gen. hoo
genitive hoogude
partitive hoogu hooge
hoogusid
illative hoogu
hoosse 		hoogudesse
inessive hoos hoogudes
elative hoost hoogudest
allative hoole hoogudele
adessive hool hoogudel
ablative hoolt hoogudelt
translative hooks hoogudeks
terminative hooni hoogudeni
essive hoona hoogudena
abessive hoota hoogudeta
comitative hooga hoogudega

Derived terms

Compounds

References

  • hoog in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
  • “hoog”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

North Frisian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Frisian hāch. Cognates include West Frisian heech.

Pronunciation

Adjective

hoog (comparative hooger, superlative hoogst)

  1. (Sylt) high, tall

Inflection

Inflection of hoog (Sylt dialect)
  singular plural
indefinite definite
positive
predicative / adverbial hoog
attributive
independent hoogen hoog hoogen
partitive hoogs —
comparative
predicative / adverbial hooger
attributive
independent hoogeren hooger hoogeren
partitive hoogers —
superlative
predicative / adverbial am hoogsten
attributive hoogst
independent — hoogst hoogsten

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian hāch, from Proto-West Germanic *hauh. Cognates include West Frisian heech and German hoch.

Pronunciation

Adjective

hoog (masculine hogen, feminine, plural or definite hoge, comparative hager, superlative hagst, hoogst)

  1. high
  2. difficult

References

  • Marron C. Fort (2015) “hoog”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN
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