hom

hom

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

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Homa terms

hom (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of haoma (“sacred plant”).

From Dutch hem.

• IPA^(key): /hɔm/

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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.

• (it): dit

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.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɔm]

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hom

1. one, people, someone (an unspecified individual: indefinite personal pronoun)

   Hom diu que… ― It is said that…

• tu
• u

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]

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hom f (plural hommen, diminutive hommetje n)

1. (Netherlands) milt (fish semen)

   Coordinate term: kuit (“spawn, roe”)

• hommer

• → Papiamentu: hom (dated)

• IPA^(key): /ˈhum/ [ˈhom]
• Rhymes: -um
• Syllabification: hom

hom (Hanunoo spelling ᜱᜳᜫ᜴) (literary)

1. alternative form of ho

• Conklin, Harold C. (1953), Hanunóo-English Vocabulary (University of California Publications in Linguistics), volume 9, London, England: University of California Press, →OCLC, page 129

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

The spellings geen, heem, neen for gon (“to go”), hom, and non (“none”) in the representation of Northern Middle English in Chaucer's The Reeve's Tale were argued by Tolkien to be from scribal confusion of ⟨e⟩ and ⟨o⟩. Smith, deeming such confusion improbable, instead posits that such spellings are an East Midland rendition of pronunciations such as [ɡæːn], [hæːm], [næːn] or [ɡɛːn], [hɛːm], [nɛːn] from the early actuation of the Great Vowel Shift in Northern Middle English. Horobin rejects this, concluding that heem is a rendition of a borrowing from Old Norse heimr, while geen and neen are analogical creations based upon it.

• hoom, home, hoome, whom, om, am
• hame (Northern); heem (pseudo-Northern)
• ham (Early Middle English)

• IPA^(key): /hɔ̝ːm/
• Rhymes: -ɔːm
• IPA^(key): /hɑːm/ (Early Middle English)
• IPA^(key): /haːm/ (Northern)

hom (plural homes)

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

hom

1. home, homeward

• homly
• homward

• English: home, -ham (partially)

  Geordie: hyem

• Scots: hame
• Yola: hime, hyme, haime

• “hōm, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• “hōm, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• Horobin, Simon (2003), “3: Evidence for Chaucer’s Language”, in The Language of the Chaucer Tradition (Chaucer Studies; 32), Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 57.
• Smith, Jeremy J. (1994), “The Great Vowel Shift in the North of England, and Some Forms in Chaucer's Reeve's Tale”, in Neuphilologische Mitteilungen‎^[2], volume 95, number 4, Helsinki: Modern Language Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 434.

hom

1. alternative form of hem (“them”)

hom

1. alternative form of hamme (“enclosure, meadow”)

hom

1. alternative form of whom (“who, whom”, accusative)

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.

hom

1. to have

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

• “hom” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.
• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

From Old Norse hvammr. Doublet of kvam.

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

1. a little vale

• “hom” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• ohm

hom f

1. alternative form of ham

• hum, huem, hon, om, on

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

hom m

1. nominative singular of home (“man”)

hom

1. one

• French: on

hom

1. one

• A Grammar Sketch of Sougb, in Languages of the Eastern Bird's Head (2002)

hom

1. First person singular possessive (medial position)

   my

2. First person singular object

   me

• ho'
• homma