hó

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Dakota[edit]

Noun[edit]

hó

  1. voice (of a human or animal)

Hokkien[edit]

For pronunciation and definitions of hó – see 好 (“good; well; etc.”).
(This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 好).

Hungarian[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • IPA(key): [ˈhoː]
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -hoː

Etymology 1[edit]

From Proto-Uralic *kume. Cognates include Tundra Nenets хавˮ (xaw, “fragile snow”), Omok ку (ku, “snow”).

Noun[edit]

hó (usually uncountable, plural havak)

  1. snow
Declension[edit]
Inflection (stem in -a-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative hó havak
accusative havat havakat
dative hónak havaknak
instrumental hóval havakkal
causal-final hóért havakért
translative hóvá havakká
terminative hóig havakig
essive-formal hóként havakként
essive-modal — —
inessive hóban havakban
superessive havon havakon
adessive hónál havaknál
illative hóba havakba
sublative hóra havakra
allative hóhoz havakhoz
elative hóból havakból
delative hóról havakról
ablative hótól havaktól
non-attributive
possessive - singular 		hóé havaké
non-attributive
possessive - plural 		hóéi havakéi
Possessive forms of hó
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. havam havaim
2nd person sing. havad havaid
3rd person sing. hava havai
1st person plural havunk havaink
2nd person plural havatok havaitok
3rd person plural havuk havaik
Derived terms[edit]
Compound words
Expressions

Etymology 2[edit]

From Proto-Uralic *kuŋe. Cognates include Hungarian hold (“moon”), Finnish and Estonian kuu.

Noun[edit]

hó

  2. (archaic or formal) Synonym of hónap (“month”).
Derived terms[edit]
Compound words

Etymology 3[edit]

An onomatopoeia.[1]

Interjection[edit]

hó

  1. whoa (when commanding a horse to stop)
  2. whoa (an expression of surprise)

References[edit]

  1. ^ hó in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading[edit]

  • (snow): hó in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • (month): hó in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • (expression of surprise, joy, or horror): hó in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN
  • (an exclamation to get attention or to command a horse to stop): hó in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (‘The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Irish[edit]

Noun[edit]

hó

  1. h-prothesized form of ó

Navajo[edit]

Pronoun[edit]

hó

  1. fourth-person singular and duoplural pronoun he, she, they, someone

See also[edit]

Navajo personal pronouns
singular dual plural
1st person shí nihí danihí
2nd person ni nihí danihí
3rd person bí bí daabí
4th person (3a) hó hó daahó

Old Irish[edit]

Conjunction[edit]

hó

  1. Alternative spelling of ó

Preposition[edit]

hó

  1. Alternative spelling of ó
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