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hone
English
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ho?n/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /h??n/
- Rhymes: -??n
Etymology 1
From Middle English hon (“whetstone”), from Old English h?n, from Proto-Germanic *hain? (compare Dutch heen, Norwegian hein), from Proto-Indo-European *?eh?i- (“to sharpen”) (compare Ancient Greek ????? (kônos, “cone”), Persian ???? (sân, “whetstone”)).
Noun
hone (plural hones)
- A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool.
- A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores.
Derived terms
- hone slate
- hone stone
Translations
Verb
hone (third-person singular simple present hones, present participle honing, simple past and past participle honed)
- To sharpen with a hone; to whet.
- To use a hone to produce a precision bore.
- To refine or master (a skill).
- To make more acute, intense, or effective.
Derived terms
- hone in (on) (proscribed)
Translations
See also
- grit
- sandpaper
- steel
- strop
- swarf
Etymology 2
Cognate with Icelandic hnúður.
Noun
hone (plural hones)
- A kind of swelling in the cheek.
Derived terms
- honewort
Etymology 3
French hogner (“to grumble”).
Verb
hone (third-person singular simple present hones, present participle honing, simple past and past participle honed)
- (Britain, US, Southern US, dialect) To grumble.
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
- Such tunges ?huld be torne out by the harde rootes,
Hoyning like hogges that groynis and wrotes.
- Such tunges ?huld be torne out by the harde rootes,
- c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Again?t venemous tongues enpoy?oned with ?claunder and fal?e detractions &c.:
- (Britain, US, Southern US, dialect) To pine, lament, or long.
Etymology 4
Interjection
hone, (synonym for Alas)
Used to express sorrow, or grief
- 1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, Act 4, page 141
- Oh, hone! oh, hone! miserable wretch that I am! Do ye mak confession for me, Sir, and I'll say 't after you, as weel as I dow. Oh, hone! oh, hone!
- 1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, Act 4, page 141
Cimbrian
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “expected form from *hunag? would be *honig, also neuter not masc”)
Noun
hone m
- (Luserna) honey
References
- “hone” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
Japanese
Romanization
hone
- R?maji transcription of ??
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English h?n, from Proto-Germanic *hain? (“whetstone”).
Noun
hone
- hone (whetstone)
Alternative forms
- hayn, hoone
Descendants
- English: hone
- ? Scots: hone, whoon
- Scots: hone
References
- “h?ne, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 2
Probably of Celtic origin. Compare Old Irish úan, ón (“loan, lending”) (Irish uain (“loan, time, leisure”)), Scottish Gaelic on, oin (“loan, laziness”).
Noun
hone (uncountable)
- (Northern, North Midland) delay, hesitation
Alternative forms
- one, hoyne, hune
Derived terms
- honen
Descendants
- English: hone
- Scots: hune
References
- “h??ne, n.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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hote
English
Etymology
From Middle English hoten, hoaten, haten, from Old English h?tan (“to command, be called”), from Proto-Germanic *haitan? (“command, name”), from Proto-Indo-European *keyd-, from *key- (“put in motion, be moving”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian heete (“to be named”), Dutch heten (“to be named”), German Low German heten (“to be called, be named”), German heißen (“to be called”), Swedish heta (“to be called”). Related to hight, hest.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /h??t/
- Rhymes: -??t
Verb
hote (third-person singular simple present hotes, present participle hoting, simple past hight, past participle hoten)
- (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To command; to enjoin.
- (obsolete) To promise.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To be called, be named.
- (obsolete, transitive) To call, name.
Usage notes
- In the sense of "to command, enjoin", hight may be replaced as follows:
- The captain hight five sailors stay on the other side of the inlet and guard the cargo. = The captain said to five sailors: Stay on the other side of the inlet and guard the cargo.
- Beowulf hight his men build a great mead-hall, the kind of which man's progeny should hear tell forever. = Beowulf said to his men: Build a great mead-hall, the kind of which man's progeny should hear tell forever.
- The word survives only as part of the oral tradition in rural Scotland and Northern England. It is no longer used in common speech.
Related terms
- behote
Anagrams
- Theo, Theo., etho-, theo, theo-
Middle English
Noun
hote
- Alternative form of ote
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