haloo
English edit
Verb edit
haloo (third-person singular simple present haloos, present participle halooing, simple past and past participle halooed)
- Dated form of halloo.
- 1760, Oliver Goldsmith, The Citizen of the World:
- Scenes shifting, trumpets sounding, mobs halooing, carpets spreading, guards bustling from one door to another; gods, demons, daggers, racks, and ratsbane.
Noun edit
haloo (plural haloos)
Anagrams edit
Esperanto edit
Etymology edit
From Latin halōs, from Ancient Greek ἅλως (hálōs).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
haloo (accusative singular haloon, plural halooj, accusative plural haloojn)
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Interjection edit
haloo
- hello (greeting used when answering the telephone; call for response if it is not clear if anyone is present or listening; also used sarcastically)
- (colloquial) come on (used to express disapproval of or exasperation for what someone has said or done)
- Hei haloo, et sä nyt noin voi tehdä.
- Hey come on, you can't do that.
Noun edit
haloo (colloquial)
Declension edit
Inflection of haloo (Kotus type 17/vapaa, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | haloo | haloot | ||
genitive | haloon | haloiden haloitten | ||
partitive | haloota | haloita | ||
illative | halooseen | haloisiin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | haloo | haloot | ||
accusative | nom. | haloo | haloot | |
gen. | haloon | |||
genitive | haloon | haloiden haloitten | ||
partitive | haloota | haloita | ||
inessive | haloossa | haloissa | ||
elative | haloosta | haloista | ||
illative | halooseen | haloisiin haloihinrare | ||
adessive | haloolla | haloilla | ||
ablative | haloolta | haloilta | ||
allative | haloolle | haloille | ||
essive | haloona | haloina | ||
translative | halooksi | haloiksi | ||
abessive | halootta | haloitta | ||
instructive | — | haloin | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Further reading edit
- “haloo”, in Kielitoimiston sanakirja [Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish][1] (online dictionary, continuously updated, in Finnish), Helsinki: Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus (Institute for the Languages of Finland), 2004–, retrieved 2023-07-02