hón

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Hungarian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Uralic *kone. Cognates include Northern Mansi ханул (hanul), Finnish kainalo and Estonian kaenal.[1][2]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

hón (usually uncountable, plural hónok)

  1. (with a possessive suffix): armpit, underarm, (under) someone’s arm
    a hónom alatt ― under my arm

Declension[edit]

Possessive forms of hón
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. hónom hónaim
2nd person sing. hónod hónaid
3rd person sing. hóna hónai
1st person plural hónunk hónaink
2nd person plural hónotok hónaitok
3rd person plural hónuk hónaik

Derived terms[edit]

Compound words

References[edit]

  1. ^ Entry #348 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ hón 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]

  • hón 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

Icelandic[edit]

Alternative forms[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Old Norse hón.

Pronoun[edit]

hón (personal pronoun)

  1. (archaic) she
    Var hón kvenna fríðust.
    And she was the fairest of all women.

Declension[edit]

  Icelandic personal pronouns
Icelandic personal pronouns
singular first person second person third person masculine third person feminine third person neuter
nominative ég, eg†, ek† þú hann hún, hon†, hón† það, þat†
accusative mig, mik† þig, þik† hann hana það, þat†
dative mér þér honum, hánum† henni því
genitive mín þín hans hennar þess
plural first person second person third person masculine third person feminine third person neuter
nominative við þið, þit† þeir þær þau
accusative okkur ykkur þá þær þau
dative okkur ykkur þeim þeim þeim
genitive okkar ykkar þeirra þeirra þeirra


Old Norse[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From older hǫ́n, from Proto-Norse *ᚺᚨᚾᚢ (*hanu /⁠*hānu⁠/), from a prefixed form of Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”).[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

  • (9th century West Norse) IPA(key): /hɒ̃ːn/

Pronoun[edit]

hón

  1. she (third-person nominative singular feminine personal pronoun)

Declension[edit]

Old Norse personal pronouns
number first person second person reflexive third person
case singular singular masculine singular feminine singular neuter
nominative ek þú hann hón, hǫ́n þat
accusative mik þik sik hann hana, hána þat
dative mér þér sér hánum, hónum, hǫ́num henni því
genitive mín þín sín hans hennar þess
case dual
nominative vit it, þit
accusative okkr ykkr sik
dative okkr ykkr sér
genitive okkar ykkar sín
case plural plural masculine plural feminine plural neuter
nominative vér ér, þér þeir þær þau
accusative oss yðr sik þá þær þau
dative oss yðr sér þeim þeim þeim
genitive vár yðar, yðvar sín þeira, þeirra þeira, þeirra þeira, þeirra


Descendants[edit]

  • Icelandic: hún
  • Faroese: hon
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: ho; (dialectal) hon, hõ, hu
  • Elfdalian: ą̊
  • Old Swedish: hōn
  • Danish: hun
    • Norwegian Bokmål: hun
  • Old Gutnish: han

References[edit]

  1. ^ Lander, E. T. (2020). The History of the Reinforced Demonstrative in Nordic: Regional Variation and Reconstruction. Netherlands: Brill, p. 10
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