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hoo
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hu?/
Etymology 1
From Middle English hoo, shoo (“she”) from Old English h?o (“she”). More at she.
Pronoun
hoo (third-person singular, feminine, nominative case, accusative and possessive her, possessive hers, reflexive herself)
- (South Lancashire, Yorkshire and Derbyshire) she
- (west midlands and south-western) he or also can be used as a gender neutral third person pronoun
Derived terms
- hoo-justice
- hoo'll
- hoose
- hoost
- hoor
Etymology 2
From Middle English hoo, ho. More at ho.
Interjection
hoo!
- (obsolete) hurrah; an exclamation of triumphant joy
- Our enemy is banish'd! he is gone! Hoo! hoo!
- With, hoo! such bugs and goblins in my life
- (Tyneside) Used to grab the attention of others.
- "Hoo yee!"
Etymology 3
From Middle English howe, hu (“how”), from Old English h? (“how”). More at how.
Adverb
hoo (not comparable)
- (Northumbria, Tyneside) how
References
- Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
- Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[1]
- Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [2]
Etymology 4
From Middle English hoo, hou, ho, hogh, hoh, from Old English h?h. Doublet of hough.
Noun
hoo
- (obsolete outside placenames) A strip of land; a peninsula; a spur or ridge.
Anagrams
- OOH, oho, ooh
Arapaho
Noun
hoo
- porcupine
Finnish
Etymology
From Swedish hå, ultimately from Latin h? with raising of /a?/ to /o?/.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ho?/, [?ho??]
- Rhymes: -o?
- Syllabification: hoo
Noun
hoo
- aitch (The name of the Latin-script letter H.)
Usage notes
- Speakers often use the expression h-kirjain ("letter h") instead of inflecting this word, especially in the plural.
Declension
Synonyms
- h-kirjain
Derived terms
- hoomoilasena
Anagrams
- oho
Scots
Adverb
hoo (not comparable)
- how
- why
Westrobothnian
Etymology
From Old Norse hóa.
Verb
hoo (preterite hoe)
- To shout.
Synonyms
- hååj
- roop
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who
English
Etymology
From Middle English who, hwo, huo, wha, hwoa, hwa, from Old English hw? (dative hw?m, genitive hwæs), from Proto-Germanic *hwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *k?os, *k?is.
The sound change /hw/ > /h/ (without a corresponding change in spelling) due to wh-cluster reduction after an irregular change of /a?/ to /o?/ in Middle English (instead of the expected /??/) and further to /u?/ regularly in Early Modern English. Compare how, which underwent wh-reduction earlier (in Old English), and thus is spelt with h.
Compare Scots wha, West Frisian wa, Dutch wie, Low German we, German wer, Danish hvem, Norwegian Bokmål hvem, Norwegian Nynorsk kven, Icelandic hver.
Pronunciation
- enPR: ho?o, IPA(key): /hu?/
- Rhymes: -u?
Pronoun
who (singular or plural, nominative case, objective whom, who, possessive whose)
- (interrogative) What person or people; which person or people; asks for the identity of someone. (used in a direct or indirect question)
- Who is that? (direct question)
- I don't know who it is. (indirect question)
- (interrogative) What is one's position; asks whether someone deserves to say or do something.
- I don't like what you did, but who am I to criticize you? I've done worse.
- (relative) The person or people that.
- Her sister who worked here is an enemy of his.
- (relative) Whoever, he who, they who.
- 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, act III, scene 3
- Who steals my purse steals trash.
- It was a nice man who helped us.
- 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello, act III, scene 3
Usage notes
- Who is a subject pronoun. Whom is an object pronoun. To determine whether a particular sentence uses a subject or an object pronoun, rephrase it to use he/she or him/her instead of who, whom; if you use he or she, then you use the subject pronoun who; if you use him or her, then you use the object pronoun. The same rule applies to whoever and whomever.
- Who can also be used as an object pronoun, especially in informal writing and speech (hence one hears not only whom are you waiting for? but also who are you waiting for?), and whom may be seen as (overly) formal; in some dialects and contexts, it is hardly used, even in the most formal settings. As an exception to this, fronted prepositional phrases almost always use whom, e.g. one usually says with whom did you go?, not *with who did you go?. However, dialects in which whom is rarely used usually avoid fronting prepositional phrases in the first place (for example, using who did you go with?).
- The use of who as an object pronoun is proscribed by many authorities, but is frequent nonetheless. It is usually felt as much more acceptable than the converse hypercorrection in which whom is misused in place of who, as in *the gentleman whom spoke to me.
- For more information, see "who" and "whom" on Wikipedia.
- When “who” (or the other relative pronouns “that” and “which”) is used as the subject of a relative clause, the verb agrees with the antecedent of the pronoun. Thus “I who am...”, “He who is...”, “You who are...”, etc.
- Formerly sometimes with partitive of, where which is ordinarily used
Translations
Noun
who (plural whos)
- A person under discussion; a question of which person.
Determiner
who
- (interrogative, dialect, African-American Vernacular) whose
- Who phone just rang?
Anagrams
- How, how
Middle English
Alternative forms
- wha, hwoa, huo, hwo
Etymology
From Old English hw?, from Proto-West Germanic *hwa?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /???/
Pronoun
who
- who
Descendants
- English: who
- Northumbrian: whee, wheea
- Scots: quha, quhay, wha
- Yola: fho
References
- “wh?, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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