different between hos vs hof

English

Noun

hos

1. plural of ho

Anagrams

• OHS, OHs, Osh, SHO, Sho, Soh, ohs, osh, sho, sho', soh

Danish

Etymology

Originally an unstressed form of hus (“house”) undergoing a development in meaning from "at someone's house" to "with someone" – analogous to the development of Latin casa (“house”) to French chez (“at (the house of)”). Displaced Old Norse hjá.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [h?s]

Preposition

hos

1. at X's abode

   Vi var på besøg hos Ahmad.

   We visited Ahmad in his abode.

   Jeg sov hos en veninde.

   I slept at a friend's place.

2. in X's view; as X expresses it in their writings
   • 1877, Fredrik Petersen, Dr. Søren Kierkegaards Christendomsforkyndelse, page 544

     Maalet er hos Kierkegaard som hos Hegel et selvbevidst Liv, der af begge kaldes Aand, ...

     The goal, according to Kierkegaard is, as according to Hegel, a self-conscious life, which both of them call spirit/spirituality, ...

   • 2001, Sundhedsplejerske-institutionens dannelse: en kulturteoretisk og kulturhistorisk analyse af velfaerdsstatens embedsvaerk, Museum Tusculanum Press (?ISBN), page 132

     Muligheden for at vælge forkert er hos Hegel til stede.

     The possibility of choosing wrong is present in the view that Hegel expresses.

   • 2015, Svend Brinkmann, Identitet, Klim (?ISBN)

     Etik er derfor hos Foucault noget andet end moral, der er det filosofiske studium af gode, rigtige handlinger.

     In Foucault's writings, ethics is therefore different from morality, which is the philosophical study of good, right actions.

References

• “hos” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “hos” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

hos

1. first-person singular present indicative of hossen
2. imperative of hossen

Irish

Noun

hos m

1. h-prothesized form of os

Latin

Pronoun

h?s

1. accusative masculine plural of hic

Middle English

Alternative forms

• hose, hoos, hoose, hoce, hase, haase, hayse, hors, horse, hoorse

Etymology

From Old English h?s, *h?rs, from Proto-Germanic *haisaz, *haisraz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??s/, /h??rs/
• (Northern ME) IPA^(key): /h??s/, /h??rs/

Adjective

hos (plural and weak singular hose)

1. Hoarse; harsh-sounding.
2. (rare) Unclear-sounding; hard to detect.

Related terms

• hosely
• hosnesse

Descendants

• English: hoarse
• Scots: hairse, hairsh, haise

References

• “h?s, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-23.

Noun

hos (uncountable)

1. (rare) The state of being hoarse or an example of it.

References

• “h?s, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-03-23.

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Middle High German hase, from Old High German haso, from Proto-West Germanic *has?, from Proto-Germanic *hasô (“hare”). Cognate with German Hase, English hare.

Noun

hos m

1. hare

References

• “hos” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

Developed from hus.

Pronunciation

Preposition

hos

1. at, by, with

References

• “hos” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

Developed from hus.

Preposition

hos

1. at, by, with

Synonyms

• hjå

References

• “hos” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xo?s/, [ho?s]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *hans?. Cognate with Old High German hansa.

Noun

h?s f

1. escort; company; troop

Declension

Etymology 2

Noun

h?s f

1. bramble
2. thorn

Declension

Swedish

Etymology 1

Compare Old Swedish i hoss “close by, nearby”; probably from a weak form of Old Swedish h?s (“house”) (Swedish hus); cognate with Danish hos. Compare Icelandic hjá (“at, by”) from hjón (“married couple”), French chez (“to/at the house of”) from Latin casa (“house”) and Westrobothnian foss (“right away”) from fus, fos (“eager”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?s/

Preposition

hos

1. in the vicinity of
2. at someone's place or building, usually their home or workplace. Same as Icelandic hjá.

   I am at the devil's place; I am in hell.

3. with someone (used instead of med with a few static verbs, such as stay)

Derived terms

• hemma hos

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hu?s/

Noun

hos

1. indefinite genitive singular of ho

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English horse.

Noun

hos

1. horse

English

Etymology 1

Borrowed from German Hof. Doublet of howff.

Noun

hof (plural hofs)

1. Enclosure, court, dwelling, building, house.
   • 1993 May, William, Trevor, Jake's Castle, in Harper's Magazine:

     Ulrike lived in a farm hof, and all around me were the dark blank fields punctuated by a few disparate lights.

   • 2009, Chloe Aridjis, Book of Clouds (New York: Black Cat, 1st edition):

     Like many old houses, this one had a front section, where I lived, and at the back an interior courtyard, the Hof, enclosed on all three sides by more apartments.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Old Norse hóf, reinforced in modern (post-1990, chiefly neopagan) use by Icelandic hof (“shrine, temple”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: h?f, IPA^(key): /ho?f/

Noun

hof (plural hofs)

1. (Neopaganism) temple, sanctuary, hall.
   • 1996, Varg Vikernes, cited after Gardell, Gods of the Blood, 2003, p. 307.

     For each ten churches burned to ashes, one heathen hof is avenged.

   • 2005, Michael Strmiska, Modern Paganism In World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives, p. 170.

     Asatruarfelagid lacks a central religious temple, or hof in Icelandic. Constructing a hof has been high on the members' wish list for many years.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Korean ?? (hopeu), in turn from German Hofbräuhaus. In English, the spelling has been re-aligned with the Korean term's etymon.

Noun

hof (plural hofs)

1. A Korean-style bar or pub.

Anagrams

• FOH, foh

Cimbrian

Noun

hof m

1. garden

References

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?f/, [?h?f]

Etymology 1

From Middle Low German hof, from Proto-Germanic *huf?, cognate with German Hof (“yard, court, farmyard”), Dutch hof (“yard, court, garden”), Old Norse hof (“shrine; court”). Doublet of hov (“shrine, temple”).

Noun

hof n (singular definite hoffet, plural indefinite hoffer)

1. court (family and society of a sovereign)
2. admirers

Inflection

References

• “hof” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “Hof,1” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Etymology 2

Clipping of hofpilsner, from hof (“court”) +? pilsner (“lager beer”).

Noun

hof c (singular definite hoffen, plural indefinite hof)

1. Carlsberg beer

Inflection

References

• “Hof,2” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch hof, from Old Dutch *hof, from Proto-Germanic *huf?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??f/
• Hyphenation: hof
• Rhymes: -?f

Noun

hof n or m (plural hoven, diminutive hofje n)

1. (royal) court
2. court of law; short form of gerechtshof
3. court, yard
4. (East and West Flanders) garden

Derived terms

Descendants

• Afrikaans: hof
• ? Papiamentu: hòfi (from the diminutive)

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse hof, from Proto-Germanic *huf?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??v/
• Rhymes: -??v

Noun

hof n (genitive singular hofs, nominative plural hof)

1. shrine, typically in a home on farm; by extension a temple

Declension

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch *hof, from Proto-Germanic *huf?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?f/

Noun

hof n or m

1. court, enclosed space
2. garden
3. farmstead
4. castle (court of the nobility)

Inflection

Derived terms

• h?vesch

Descendants

• Dutch: hof
  • Afrikaans: hof
  • ? Papiamentu: hòfi (from the diminutive)
• Limburgish: haof, hoof
• ? Scots: howff
  • ? English: howff

Further reading

• “hof”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “hof (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page II

Old English

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *huf?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xof/, [hof]

Noun

hof n (nominative plural hofu)

1. court, hall
2. house, building

Declension

Descendants

• ? Middle English: hovel, hovil, hovylle (diminutive)
  • English: hovel

See also

• ærn n
• h?s n

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *h?faz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xo?f/, [ho?f]

Noun

h?f m

1. a hoof

Declension

Descendants

• English: hoof

Old Frisian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *huf?, from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“to bend”). Cognates include Old English hof, Old Saxon hof and Old Dutch *hof.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hof/

Noun

hof n

1. court

Descendants

• North Frisian: hof
• Saterland Frisian: Hoaf
• West Frisian: hôf

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *h?faz, from Proto-Indo-European *?oph?ós. Cognates include Old English h?f, Old Saxon h?f and Old Dutch *huof.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ho?f/

Noun

h?f m

1. hoof

Descendants

• Saterland Frisian: Houf, Houch
• West Frisian: hoef

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *huf? (“hill, house, temple”).

Pronunciation

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /?hov/

Noun

hof n (genitive hofs, plural hof)

1. shrine, typically in a home of a farm
   • V?luspá, verse 7, lines 3-4, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 2:

     […] þeir er hörg ok hof / hátimbruðu, […]

     […] they who shrines and temples / high timbered, […]

2. a hall, court
   • Hymiskviða, verse 33, lines 3-4, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 48:

     […] út or óru / ölkjól hofi. […]

     […] forth from our house / the cauldron here. […]

3. a royal court

Usage notes

Old Norse makes the distinction between hof "a hall, a sanctuary with a roof" and h?rgr "an altar, any cult site without a roof".The prevalent meaning of hof in Old Norse literature is "temple, sanctuary". Cleasby and Vigfússon (1874) note the generic meaning "a hall (as in German and Saxon)" in Hymiskviða 33 as a hapax legomenon. The meaning of "court" follows Middle High German and appears only from the 14th century and almost exclusively in compounds such as hof-ferð "pride, pomp", hof-garðr "lordly mansion", hof-fólk "courtiers".

Declension

Derived terms

Descendants

• Icelandic: hof
• Faroese: hov
• Norwegian: hov, hòv
• ? English: hof

References

• hof in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hof in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
• hof in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

Old Saxon

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *huf?.

Noun

hof n

1. dwelling, hovel, house
2. court, hall

Descendants

• Middle Low German: hof
  • German Low German: Hoff
  • Plautdietsch: Hoff
  • ? Danish: hof
  • ? Estonian: hoov
  • ? Norwegian: hoff
  • ? Old Swedish: hof
    • Swedish: hov
      • ? Finnish: huovi
    • ? Finnish: hovi

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *h?faz.

Noun

h?f m

1. a hoof

Swedish

Noun

hof n

1. royal court; Obsolete spelling of hov
2. hoof; Obsolete spelling of hov

Declension