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hon
English
Etymology 1
Shortened from honey.
Alternative forms
- hun
Pronunciation
- enPR: h?n, IPA(key): /h?n/
- Homophone: Hun
Noun
hon
- (used only to address someone) Honey, sweetheart, a term of endearment; (Southern US) a friendly term of address.
Etymology 2
Clipping of come on with devoicing of /m/. Compare c'mon.
Alternative forms
- 'hon, h'on
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [m??n], /hm?n/, /h?n/
Interjection
hon
- (Ireland, slang); (typically) cheering a sports team, especially a GAA team; exhortation or encouragement come on; congratulations well done, bravo
- 2013 September 9, Rosita Boland "Feelings of relief and anti-climax in Ennis car park" The Irish Times
- “Hon the Banner!” is the single-minded mantra being roared everywhere else.
- 2016 August 17, Jennifer Dollard "Seagulls cover Beastie Boys' 'Sabotage'" Today FM:
- We're not normally impressed by this kind of stuff but h'on the lads! This is pretty good.
- 2017 March 16, Amy O'Connor "GQ did a swanky photoshoot in loads of Dublin pubs with the star of Beauty and the Beast" Daily Edge:
- To coincide with the film’s release, GQ recently enlisted the actor to take part in a photoshoot in some of Dublin’s most beloved pubs. ... Hon Dublin!
- 2017 April 7, Johnny Watterson, John O'Sullivan, "Liveblog: US Masters: Day One" The Irish Times:
- 22:23 BIRDIE: Lowry (-2) can't find the bottom of the cup with his eagle putt but taps in for birdie. Hon the Offalyman. He's one behind the leaders, McGirt and Hoffman
- 2013 September 9, Rosita Boland "Feelings of relief and anti-climax in Ennis car park" The Irish Times
Anagrams
- NOH, Noh, noh, ohn
Breton
Determiner
hon
- our
Catalan
Adverb
hon
- Archaic form of on.
Further reading
- “hon” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Czech
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [??on]
Noun
hon m
- hunt, chase
Usage notes
- While lov may refer to any kind of hunting, hon refers only to those which involve chasing such as of ducks or fox.
Related terms
- honit
See also
- lov
Further reading
- hon in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
- hon in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989
Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse hón, from Proto-Germanic *h?n?. Cognate with Icelandic hún, Danish hun and Norwegian Bokmål hun.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ho?n]
Pronoun
hon
- she
Declension
Hungarian
Etymology
From the archaic honn (“at home”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?hon]
- Rhymes: -on
Noun
hon (plural honok)
- (literary) home, homeland, fatherland
- Synonym: haza
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- (homeland): hon in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
- (alternative form of honn (“at home”, rare, archaic)): hon in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
Hunsrik
Etymology
From Central Franconian hann, from Old High German hav?n, northern variant of hab?n, from Proto-Germanic *habjan?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h?n/
Verb
hon
- to have
- (auxiliary, with a past participle) to have (forms the perfect)
Inflection
Further reading
- Online Hunsrik Dictionary
Icelandic
Alternative forms
- hún
- hón (archaic)
Pronoun
hon (personal pronoun):
- (archaic) she
Declension
Japanese
Romanization
hon
- R?maji transcription of ??
Middle English
Etymology 1
Verb
hon (third-person singular simple present honeth, present participle honynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle honed)
- Alternative form of honen (“to linger”)
Etymology 2
Preposition
hon
- Alternative form of on
Etymology 3
Numeral
hon
- Alternative form of oon
Pronoun
hon
- Alternative form of oon
Etymology 4
Noun
hon (plural hones)
- Alternative form of hond
Etymology 5
Verb
hon (third-person singular simple present hoþ, present participle honde, first-/third-person singular past indicative heng, past participle ihon)
- (Early Middle English) Alternative form of hongen
Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hanhan?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xo?n/, [ho?n]
Verb
h?n
- to hang
- to suspend
Conjugation
Derived terms
- ?h?n
- beh?n
- ?eh?n
- ymbh?n
Descendants
- Middle English: h?n, hangen, hongen (merger with hangian)
- English: hang
Old French
Noun
hon m
- Alternative form of hom
Old Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse hón, from Proto-Germanic *h?n?.
Pronoun
h?n
- she
Declension
Descendants
- Swedish: hon
Rohingya
Etymology
Cognate with Assamese ??? (kün), Hindi ??? (kaun), Romani kon.
Pronoun
hon
- who
Swedish
Etymology 1
From Old Swedish h?n, from Old Norse hón, from Proto-Germanic *h?n?. Cognate with Icelandic hún, Danish hun and Norwegian Bokmål hun.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h?n/
Pronoun
hon
- she; the third-person, singular, feminine pronoun in the nominative case
- it (for certain nouns that were feminine in Old Swedish)
- Vad är hon?
- What (time) is it?
- Går hon bra?
- Is it (the car) working all right?
- Vad är hon?
Declension
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the main entry.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hu?n/
Noun
hon
- definite singular of ho
Vilamovian
Pronunciation
Verb
hon
- to have
Welsh
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h?n/
Pronoun
hon f (masculine hwn, neuter hyn)
- this
Related terms
- honno
Zuni
Pronoun
hon
- First person dual subject (medial position)
- we two
- First person plural subject (medial position)
- we (three or more)
Related terms
- ho'na'
- ho'n'aawan
See also
hon From the web:
- what hondas have vtec
- what honey is best for you
- what honey good for
- what honda civics have vtec
- what honeywell thermostat do i have
- what honda has 3rd row seating
- what hondas are awd
- what honey is good for allergies
thon
English
Etymology
Proposed in 1858 by Charles Crozat Converse from that + one.
Compare also dialectal English and Scots thon (“that; yon”, adjective; pronoun), which is a blend of that +? yon.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ð?n/
Pronoun
thon (third-person singular, gender-neutral, possessive thons, reflexive thonself)
- (nonstandard, rare, see usage notes) they (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
- (nonstandard, rare, see usage notes) them (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns him and her.
Usage notes
A neologism when Charles Crozat Converse coined it in 1858, thon has seen limited use since then.
Synonyms
- (as subject): (singular) they
- (as object): (singular) them
- (neologism) ey, e, sie, shi, ze, per, co
Hyponyms
- (as subject): he, she
- (as object): him, her
Derived terms
- (neologism) thons
- (neologism) thonself
See also
- other attested gender-neutral pronouns
References
Further reading
- Gender-specific and gender-neutral pronouns on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- no'th
French
Etymology
From Latin thunnus, thynnus (itself from Ancient Greek ?????? (thúnnos)), possibly through the intermediate of Old Occitan ton.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t??/
- Homophones: thons, ton, tond, tonds, tons
Noun
thon m (plural thons)
- tuna
- (derogatory) an ugly woman
Synonyms
- (ugly woman): cageot, morue,
Derived terms
- thon rouge
- thonaire
- thonier
Further reading
- “thon” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle French
Etymology
First attested 1393 as ton. Borrowed from Latin thunnus, thynnus, possibly via Old Occitan ton although the Middle French is attested earlier than the Old Occitan.
Noun
thon m (plural thons)
- tuna (fish)
Descendants
- French: ton
References
Scots
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ðon], [ð?n]
Adjective
thon (not comparable)
- Alternative form of yon
Pronoun
thon
- Alternative form of yon
Adverb
thon (not comparable)
- Alternative form of yon
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
- (Hà N?i) IPA(key): [t??n??]
- (Hu?) IPA(key): [t?????]
- (H? Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [t?????]
Adjective
thon • (?, ?, ?)
- tapering, tapered
- slender
Derived terms
Related terms
- thuôn
thon From the web:
- what thong means
- what thins your blood
- what things are blue
- what things are purple
- what things can be recycled
- what things weakened the soviet union
- what things have gluten
- what things are red