ho

See also Appendix:Variations of "ho"

English

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /həʊ/
• (US) IPA: /hoʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊ
• Homophones: hoe, hoh

Etymology 1

From Middle English ho, hoo (interjection), probably from Old Norse hó! (interjection, also, a shepherd's call). Compare German ho, Old French ho ! (“hold!, halt!”).

Interjection

ho

1. (nautical) Used to attract attention to something sighted, usually by lookouts.

   Sail ho!

   Another boat is visible!

   Land ho!

   Land is visible!

   Man ho!

   A town is visible!

2. halloo; hey; a call to excite attention, or to give notice of approach
   • Shakespeare

     What noise there, ho?

   • Shakespeare

     Ho! who's within?

Translations

nautical: attention grabber

• Finnish: ohoi (fi)

• Swedish: ohoj (sv), åhoj (sv)

References

• 1996, T.F. Hoad, The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Etymology, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0192830988

Etymology 2

An eye dialect corruption of whore, from non-rhotic pronunciations considered typical of African American Vernacular English. Compare mo' (more) and fo' (for, four).

Noun

ho (plural hos or hoes)

1. (slang, pejorative) A whore; a sexually loose woman; in general use as a highly offensive name-calling word for a woman with connotations of loose sexuality.

   Bros before hos!

Translations

whore

• Dutch: hoer (nl)
• Finnish: huora (fi)
• French: pute (fr) f
• German: Hure (de) f

• Icelandic: hóra (is) f
• Norwegian: hore (no) f
• Portuguese: puta (pt), prostituta (pt), vadia (pt)
• Spanish: prostituta (es) f

Anagrams

• oh, OH

---

Cantonese

Pronunciation

• ho (Yale ho4)

Proper noun

ho

1. Cantonese spelling of Chinese surname 何.

---

Catalan

Pronunciation

• (Eastern) IPA: /u/, /əw/; X-SAMPA: /u/, /@w/
• (Western) IPA: /u/, /ew/, /o/; X-SAMPA: /u/, /ew/, /o/
• (Valencian) IPA: /ew/, /u/, /o/; X-SAMPA: /ew/, /u/, /o/

Etymology

From Latin hoc.

Pronoun

ho (enclitic and proclitic)

1. it (direct object); replaces the demonstrative pronouns açò, això and allò
2. replaces an independent clause (one which could grammatically form a sentence on its own)
3. replaces an adjective or an indefinite noun which serves as the predicate of ésser, esdevenir, estar or semblar

Usage notes

• Ho cannot be used with either en or hi.

Declension

Catalan personal pronouns and clitics

	strong/subject	weak (direct object)		weak (indirect object)		possessive
singular		proclitic	enclitic	proclitic	enclitic
1st person	jo, mi2	em, m’	-me, ’m	em, m’	-me, ’m	meu
2nd person	tu	et, t’	-te, ’t	et, t’	-te, ’t	teu
2nd person formal4	vós	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
2nd person  very formal1	vostè	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
3rd person masculine	ell	el, l’	-lo, ’l	li	-li	seu
3rd person feminine	ella	la, l’3	-la	li	-li	seu
3rd person neuter		ho	-ho	li	-li	seu
3rd person reflexive	si	es, s’	-se, ’s	es, s’	-se, ’s	seu
plural
1st person	nosaltres	ens	-nos, ’ns	ens	-nos, ’ns	nostre
2nd person	vosaltres	us	-vos, -us	us	-vos, -us	vostre
2nd person formal1	vostès	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person masculine	ells	els	-los, ’ls	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person feminine	elles	les	-les	els	-los, ’ls	seu
3rd person reflexive	si	es, s’	-se, ’s	es, s’	-se, ’s	seu
adverbial
ablative/genitive		en, n’	-ne, ’n
locative		hi	-hi
1) Behaves grammatically as third person. 2) Only as object of a preposition.			3) Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-. 4) Behaves grammatically as second person plural.

Contraction

Proclictic

• m'ho
• s'ho
• t'ho

Enclictic

• -ens-ho
• -li-ho
• -los-ho
• 'ls-ho
• -m'ho
• 'ns-ho
• -s'ho
• -t'ho
• -us-ho
• -vos-ho

---

Chickasaw

Pronoun

ho

1. they

---

Czech

Pronoun

ho m, n

1. Accusative case of on.
2. Accusative case of ono.

Synonyms

• (accusative of on): jej

---

Esperanto

Pronunciation

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

ho (plural ho-oj, accusative singular ho-on, accusative plural ho-ojn)

1. The name of the Latin script letter H/h.

See also

• (Latin script letter names) litero; a, bo/‎be, co/‎ce, ĉo/‎ĉa, do/‎de, e, fo/‎ef, go/‎ge, ĝo/‎ĝe, ho/‎ha, ĥo/‎ĥi, i, jo/‎je, ĵo/‎ĵi, ko/‎ka, lo/‎el, mo/‎om, no/‎en, o, po/‎pa, ro/‎ar, so/‎es, ŝo/‎eŝ, to/‎ta, u, ŭo/‎eŭ, vo/‎vi, zo/‎ze ^{(Category: eo:Latin letter names)}

Interjection

ho

1. oh

---

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɔ/, X-SAMPA: /O/
• Rhymes: -ɔ

Verb

ho

1. first-person singular present indicative of avere - I have

---

Japanese

Romanization

ho

1. See ほ
2. See ホ

---

Middle English

Pronoun

ho

1. who

---

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse hon.

Pronoun

ho (accusative ho/henne, genitive hennar)

1. she

   Ho er bestevenen min.

   She is my best friend.

2. her

   Er det ho som skal vera med?

   Is it her who is joining us?

Synonyms

• (her): henne

References

• “ho” in The Nynorsk Dictionary – Dokumentasjonsprosjektet.

See also

    Personal pronouns in Nynorsk

	Nominative	Objective case	Genitive/Possessive pronoun
Singular
First person	eg	meg	min m
Second person	du	deg	din m
Third person m	han	han, honom3	hans
Third person f	ho	ho, henne	hennar, hennes4
Third person n	det, dat1	det, dat1	dess 2
Plural
First person	me, vi	oss	vår m
Second person	de, dokker	dykk, dokker	dykkar, dokkar, deires4
Third person	dei	dei, deim3	deira
Notes
1Never part of official Nynorsk/Landsmål. Primarily used before Landsmål received an official written norm.
2Rare or literary
3No longer part of the official written norm. Now primarily used in Høgnorsk texts.
4No longer part of the official written norm. These non-traditional forms were added to the norm to either approach the the Samnorsk ideal or certain dialects.

---

Slovak

Pronoun

ho m, n

1. short genitive singular form of on
2. short accusative singular form of on
3. short genitive singular form of ono
4. short accusative singular form of ono

Synonyms

• (long form): jeho
• (prepositional form): neho

---

Swedish

Noun

ho c

1. a trough; a long container for feeding or watering animals.
2. a sink; often mounted to a wall; especially a kitchen sink or a washing sink.

Declension

Declension of ho

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	ho	hon	hoar	hoarna
genitive	hos	hons	hoars	hoarnas

Related terms

• diskho
• tvättho

Pronoun

ho

1. (obsolete) who
2. (dialectal) she

See also

• hon
• vem