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See also: Hom, hôm, hǫm, hợm, hom., and HOM

Translingual

Symbol

hom

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Homa.

English

Noun

hom (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of haoma (sacred plant)

See also

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch hem.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɔm/
  • Audio:(file)

Pronoun

hom (subject hy, possessive sy)

  1. third-person singular object pronoun
    1. him (referring to a male person)
      Ek sien hom nie.
      I can’t see him.
    2. it (referring to a non-personal noun)
      Sy het my die boek gegee, maar ek het hom nog nie gelees nie.
      She gave me the book, but I haven’t read it yet.

Synonyms

See also

Catalan

Etymology

Inherited from Old Catalan hom, from the nominative case of Latin homō (man). Its pronominal use is of Germanic origin. Compare Old English man (one, they, people), reduced form of Old English mann (man, person); French on; German man (one, they, people); Dutch men (one, they, people).

Doublet of home (man), from Old Catalan (h)ome(n), that continues the accusative case form hominem. There are very few Latin nouns that have been inherited in more than one case form, others include drac/dragó and res/re.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

hom

  1. one, people, someone (an unspecified individual: indefinite personal pronoun)
    Hom diu que…It is said that…

Declension

See also

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch homme, identical to homme (mold), of uncertain origin, but probably related to Old Norse húm (dusky, twilight), from Proto-Germanic *skim- (to shine-), which has been compared to Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (to cover),[1] but according to the Etymologisch Woordenboek this is extremely unlikely.[2]

Pronunciation

Noun

hom f (plural hommen, diminutive hommetje n)

  1. (Netherlands) milt (fish semen)

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Papiamentu: hom (dated)

References

  1. ^ Southern, M. R. V. (1999). Sub-grammatical survival : Indo-European s-mobile and its regeneration in Germanic. Washington: Institute for the Study of Man, p. 199
  2. ^ Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “hom”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands[1] (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz.

Pronunciation

Noun

hom (plural homes or heomen)

  1. home, residence, dwelling
  2. house, housing
  3. accommodation, rest
  4. (figuratively) seat, headquarters, centre
  5. (rare) village, town
Alternative forms

Adverb

hom

  1. home, homeward

Descendants

References

Etymology 2

Pronoun

hom

  1. Alternative form of hem (them)

Etymology 3

Noun

hom (plural homes)

  1. Alternative form of hamme (enclosure, meadow)

Etymology 4

Pronoun

hom

  1. Alternative form of whom (who, whom, accusative)

Mòcheno

Etymology

From Middle High German haben, from Old High German hāben, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (to have; to hold). Cognate with German haben, English have.

Verb

hom

  1. to have
    Mu i hom a kòmmer as tschins?Can I have a room to rent?

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse hvammr. Doublet of kvam.

Noun

hom m (definite singular homen, indefinite plural homar, definite plural homane)

  1. a little vale

References

Anagrams

Old French

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin homō. The use as a pronoun is a calque from West Germanic (compare Middle High German man, Middle Dutch men).

Noun

hom m

  1. nominative singular of home (man)

Pronoun

hom

  1. one

Descendants

  • French: on

Zuni

Pronoun

hom

  1. First person singular possessive (medial position)
    my
  2. First person singular object
    me