hoh

hoh

1. Alternative form of ho.
   • 1900, Margaret Sidney, The Adventures of Joel Pepper:

     "Hoh, hoh!" cried Ab'm, pointing a big fat finger at her, that might have been cleaner; "hear her now. An' she said her shoes warn't never goin' to wear out. Hoh, hoh!"

• haa, ha, heen, hä, häbä, hè

From Middle High German and Old High German hāben, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną.

Compare German haben, Dutch hebben, West Frisian hawwe, English have, Icelandic hafa.

hoh

1. (Carcoforo) to have

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

From Proto-Mayan *jooj.

hoh

1. crow

• Church, Clarence, Church, Katherine (1955) Vocabulario castellano-jacalteco, jacalteco-castellano‎^[1] (in Spanish), Guatemala C. A.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 17; 21

From Proto-West Germanic *hauh, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz.

hōh

1. high

• Middle Dutch: hôoch, hô
  • Dutch: hoog, hooge (archaic)
    • Afrikaans: hoog
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: hogo
    • Jersey Dutch: hôx
    • Negerhollands: hoog, hok
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: hug, oag

• “hō I, hōg”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄h, from Proto-Germanic *hanhaz.

• hō, hōg

• IPA^(key): /xoːx/, [hoːx]

hōh m

1. The heel (rear of a foot)

   Synonym: hēla

Strong a-stem:

• hōhsċanca

• hēla
• hōhsinu

• Middle English: hough, ho, hoche, hogh, hoȝ, hokke, hoo, houȝ, houe, howe, howghe, howh
  • English: hough, hoff, hock
  • Scots: hoch, houch
  • ⇒ Yola: houghany

Related to hōn (“to hang”).

• IPA^(key): /xoːx/, [hoːx]

hōh m

1. promontory, cliff

Strong a-stem:

• Middle English: hough, ho, hogh, hoghe, how
  • English: heugh; hoe, hogh, hough, how
  • Scots: heuch

• Angus Cameron, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey, editors (2018), “hōh”, in Dictionary of Old English: A to Le ⁠, Toronto: University of Toronto, →OCLC.

• haoh (Bavarian, up to the early 9th C.)

From Proto-West Germanic *hauh, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz (compare Old Dutch hōh, Old English hēah, Old Dutch hōh, Old Norse hár), from Proto-Indo-European *kewk-, a suffixed form of *kew-. The Indo-European root is also the source of Sanskrit कुच (kuca, “female breast”), Lithuanian kaukas, Russian куча (kuča).

For more Germanic cognates, see Proto-Germanic *hauhaz.

hōh

1. high

• hōhī

• Middle High German: hōch, hō
  • Alemannic German: hooch

    Walser: hoch, hòch

    Swabian: hauch

  • Bavarian:

    Cimbrian: hoach, hòach (Sette Comuni)

    Mòcheno: heach

    Northern Bavarian: [hɔːu̯ɣ̊], (comparative) [ˈhɛi̯xɐ], (superlative) [ˈhɛi̯kst]

  • Central Franconian: huh, hiech, hieh (western Moselle Franconian)

    Hunsrik: hogh

    Luxembourgish: héich, héi

  • German: hoch
  • Rhine Franconian: houch, hauch, hoch, hok, houk, huch, huk

    Frankfurterisch: [hoːx], (comparative) [heːʒ̥æ̆], (superlative) [he(ː)kst]

    Pennsylvania German: hooch

  • Vilamovian: huch
  • Yiddish: הויך (hoykh)

From Proto-West Germanic *hauh, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz (compare Old High German hōh, Old English hēah, Old Dutch hōh, Old Norse hár), from Proto-Indo-European *kewk-, a suffixed form of *kew-. The Indo-European root is also the source of Sanskrit कुच (kuca, “female breast”), Lithuanian kaukas, Russian куча (kuča).

For more Germanic cognates: see Proto-Germanic *hauhaz.

hōh

1. high

• Middle Low German: hôch, hô
  • Low German: hoog
    • German Low German: hooch, hoog
  • Plautdietsch: hüag, huag

• Köbler, Gerhard, Altsächsisches Wörterbuch (5th edition 2014)

• IPA^(key): /hɔh/

hoh

1. uninflected form of hohkuemek'