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English
Verb
hoved
- (nonstandard) Misconstruction of hove (as past tense of heave)
- 2009, Liz Hunt, The Daily Telegraph, 18 Aug, "The Material Girl lives up to her name":
- So how the hearts of the paps must have leapt as Madonna plus children – and lover Jesus – hoved into view off the coast of Italy this week.
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Danish
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old Norse hǫfuð, haufuð, from Proto-Germanic *hafudą or *habudą, northern form of *haubudą, cf. English head, German Haupt, Dutch hoofd. The Germanic word goes back to Proto-Indo-European *káput, cognate with Latin caput (“head”).
Pronunciation
Noun
hoved n (singular definite hovedet, plural indefinite hoveder)
- head (the body part with the brain and main sense organs)
- mind (the cognitive activities of a human being)
- person
- (figuratively) head (something with a form or a position that resembles a head, e.g. a vegetable or a page)
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Descendants
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Danish hoved.
Noun
hoved n (definite singular hovedet, indefinite plural hoveder, definite plural hovedene)
- (archaic) alternative form of hode (“head”)
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