different between frog vs him

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /f???/
• Rhymes: -??
• (US) IPA^(key): /f???/, /f???/
• Rhymes: -??, -???

Etymology 1

From Middle English frogge, from Old English frogga, frocga (“frog”), from Proto-Germanic *fruþgô (“frog”).

Alternative forms

• frock (dialectal)

Noun

frog (plural frogs)

1. A small tailless amphibian of the order Anura that typically hops.

   Synonyms: (dialectal) frosh, (dialectal) frosk

   Coordinate terms: pad, paddock

   • 2008, Lich King, "Black Metal Sucks", Toxic Zombie Onslaught:

3. (music) The part of a violin bow (or that of other similar string instruments such as the viola, cello and contrabass) located at the end held by the player, to which the horsehair is attached.
4. (Cockney rhyming slang) Road. Shorter, more common form of frog and toad.
5. The depression in the upper face of a pressed or handmade clay brick.
6. An organ on the bottom of a horse’s hoof that assists in the circulation of blood.
7. (rail transport) The part of a railway switch or turnout where the running-rails cross (from the resemblance to the frog in a horse’s hoof).

   Synonym: common crossing

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Esperanto: frogo
• ? Hawaiian: poloka
• ? Irish: frog

Translations

See also

• amphibian
• pad
• paddock
• tadpole
• toad

Verb

frog (third-person singular simple present frogs, present participle frogging, simple past and past participle frogged)

1. To hunt or trap frogs.
2. (transitive, biology) To use a pronged plater to transfer (cells) to another plate.
3. (transitive, cooking) To spatchcock (a chicken).

Derived terms

• frog stitch

Etymology 2

From frog legs, stereotypical food of the French. Compare French rosbif (“English person”), from roast beef, corresponding term for English, likewise based on stereotypical food; and Kraut for Germans.

Noun

frog (plural frogs)

1. (offensive) A French person.

   Synonyms: baguette, cheese-eating surrender monkey

2. (Canada, offensive) A French-speaking person from Quebec.

Alternative forms

• Frog

Derived terms

• frogess
• froggy
• froglet

Translations

See also

• Frenchie

Further reading

• frog in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Etymology 3

Unknown. Possibly borrowed from Portuguese froco (“flock”), from Latin floccus (“flock”).

Noun

frog (plural frogs)

1. A leather or fabric loop used to attach a sword or bayonet, or its scabbard, to a waist or shoulder belt.
2. An ornate fastener for clothing consisting of an oblong button (covered with netted thread), toggle, or knot, that fits through a loop.

Translations

Verb

frog (third-person singular simple present frogs, present participle frogging, simple past and past participle frogged)

1. To ornament or fasten a coat, etc. with frogs.

Etymology 4

Supposedly from ribbit (“sound made by a frog”) sounding similar to "rip it".

Verb

frog (third-person singular simple present frogs, present participle frogging, simple past and past participle frogged)

1. (transitive) To unravel part of (a knitted garment) while knitting it in order to correct a mistake.

Further reading

• frog on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• frog on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “frog”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Irish

Etymology

Borrowed from English frog.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [f?????]

Noun

frog m or f (genitive singular froig, nominative plural froganna)

1. frog (amphibian; organ in a horse’s foot)

Declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "frog" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “frog” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “frog” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Volapük

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [f?o?]

Noun

frog (nominative plural frogs)

1. frog (amphibian)

Declension

See also

• bufod (“toad”)
• mafib (“amphibian”)
• nim (“animal”)
• rosip (“toad”)
• vatanim (“aquatic animal”)

English

Etymology

From Middle English him, from Old English him, from Proto-Germanic *himmai (“to this, to this one”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian him (“him”), West Frisian him (“him”), Sylt North Frisian ham, höm (“him”), Dutch hem (“him”), German Low German hum, hüm, em (“him”), German ihm (“him”, dative).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: h?m, IPA^(key): /?h?m/, unstressed IPA^(key): /?m/, [??m]
• Rhymes: -?m
• Homophone: hymn,'em for unstressed in some pronunciations.

Pronoun

him (personal pronoun, objective case)

1. A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
   1. With dative effect or as an indirect object. [from 9th c.]
      • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula:

        ‘I promise,’ he said as I gave him the papers.

   2. Following a preposition. [from 9th c.]
      • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:

        She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.

   3. With accusative effect or as a direct object. [from 12th c.]
      • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House:

        ‘He's got it buttoned in his breast. I saw him put it there.’

2. (now rare) Used reflexively: (to) himself. [from 9th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts XII:

     Apon a daye apoynted, the kynge arayed hym in royall apparell, and set hym in his seate, and made an oracion unto them.

   • 1765, Oliver Goldsmith, The traveller, or, A prospect of society

     Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,

     He sees his little lot the lot of all;

     [...]

     But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil,

     Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil.

3. With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after be, or following a preposition. [from 15th c.]
   • c. 1616, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, First Folio 1623, V.10:

     Before my body, I throw my warlike Shield: Lay on Macduffe, And damn'd be him, that first cries hold, enough.

   • 2003, Claire Cozens, The Guardian, 11 Jun 2003:

     Lowe quit the West Wing last year amid rumours that he was unhappy that his co-stars earned more than him.

4. Alternative letter-case form of Him

Descendants

• Jamaican Creole: im
• Pijin: hem
• Pijin: -im

Translations

See also

See also

• he
• his
• her
• them

Noun

him (plural hims)

1. (informal) A male person or animal.
   • 1985, Hélène Cixous, Sorties (translated)

     […] daring dizzying passages in other, fleeting and passionate dwellings within the hims and hers whom she inhabits […]

   • 2004, Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel

     Both hims took a good look at him.

Synonyms

• he

Anagrams

• HMI

Gayón

Noun

him

1. water

References

• Luis Oramas, Materiales para el estudio de los dialectos Ayamán, Gayón, Jirajara, Ajagua (1916)

Irish

Noun

him m

1. h-prothesized form of im

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /him/

Pronoun

him

1. third-person masculine singular, dative: him, to him

   Ech baken him e Kuch.

   I'm baking him a cake.

2. third-person neuter singular, dative: her, to her; (rarely: it, to it)

   Hie war gëschter mat him am Kino.

   He went to the cinema with her yesterday.

Usage notes

• For the use of the neuter for referring to female persons, see hatt.

Declension

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English him. Originally a dative form; gradually displaced accusative hine.

Alternative forms

• himm, hym, im, ym, hem, hime, hyme

Pronoun

him (nominative he)

2. Third-person singular masculine pronoun indicating a grammatical object: him.
3. (reflexive) himself.
4. Third-person singular neuter pronoun indicating a grammatical object: it.
5. (impersonal) Third-person singular neuter pronoun indicating a grammatical object one, you.

Descendants

• English: him

See also

References

• “him, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 May 2018.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

him

1. Alternative form of hem (“them”)

Mizo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /him/

Adjective

him

1. safe
2. unscathed

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hi?m/

Adverb

him

1. (dialectal) alternative form of heim

Old English

Alternative forms

• hym, heom, eom

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /him/

Pronoun

him

1. dative of h?: him
2. dative of hit: it
3. dative of h?e: them

Descendants

• English: him, 'em

Old Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?m/

Pronoun

him

1. dative of h?; him

Inflection

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?m/

Pronoun

him

1. oblique of hie; him

See also

References

• “him” in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch

Sursurunga

Verb

him

1. to work

Further reading

• Sursurunga Organised Phonology Data (2011)

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian him, from Proto-Germanic *himmai.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?m/
• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /(?)m/

Pronoun

him

1. object of hy