hof
English
editEtymology 1
editBorrowed from German Hof. Doublet of howff.
Noun
edithof (plural hofs)
- Enclosure, court, dwelling, building, house.
- 1993 May, Trevor William, “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, 1st edition, New York: Black Cat:
- 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
editBorrowed from Old Norse hof or Old English hof, reinforced in modern (post-1990, chiefly neopagan) use by Icelandic hof (“shrine, temple”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithof (plural hofs)
- (Germanic paganism) temple, sanctuary, hall.
- 1996, Varg Vikernes, cited after Gardell, Gods of the Blood, published 2003, page 307:
- For each ten churches burned to ashes, one heathen hof is avenged.
- 2005, Michael Strmiska, Modern Paganism In World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives, page 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.
- 2014 November 18, Stubba, The Book of Blots[1], page 102:
- The Candidate for membership of Hof, Garth or Hearth shall hold an Armill, or he may touch an unsheathed Sword throughout the ceremony.
Synonyms
editEtymology 3
editBorrowed from Korean 호프 (hopeu), in turn from German Hofbräuhaus. In English, the spelling has been re-aligned with the Korean term's etymon.
Noun
edithof (plural hofs)
- A Korean-style bar or pub.
- 2009 January 4, Adam B. Ellick, “In Queens: A Melting Pot, and a Closed Book”, in New York Times[2]:
- To the south are Korean spas, Korean barbecue joints and hofs, or Korean pubs.
Anagrams
editCimbrian
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Middle High German and Old High German hof, from Proto-West Germanic *hof, from Proto-Germanic *hufą. Cognate with German Hof.
Noun
edithof m
Further reading
edit- 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
Danish
editPronunciation
editEtymology 1
editFrom Middle Low German hof, from Old Saxon hof, from Proto-West Germanic *hof, from Proto-Germanic *hufą, cognate with German Hof (“yard, court, farmyard”), Dutch hof (“yard, court, garden”), Old Norse hof (“shrine; court”). Doublet of hov (“shrine, temple”).
Noun
edithof n (singular definite hoffet, plural indefinite hoffer)
Declension
editReferences
editEtymology 2
editClipping of hofpilsner, from hof (“court”) + pilsner (“lager beer”).
Noun
edithof c (singular definite hoffen, plural indefinite hof)
Declension
editReferences
editDutch
editEtymology
editFrom Middle Dutch hof, from Old Dutch *hof, from Proto-West Germanic *hof, from Proto-Germanic *hufą.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithof n or m (plural hoven, diminutive hofje n)
- court, residence of a monarch or other high-placed person
- court, entourage of a monarch or other high-placed person
- court of law; short form of gerechtshof
- court, yard
- (Belgium) garden
Derived terms
editDescendants
editIcelandic
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse hof, from Proto-Germanic *hufą.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithof n (genitive singular hofs, nominative plural hof)
Declension
editMiddle Dutch
editEtymology
editPronunciation
editNoun
edithof n or m
Inflection
editDerived terms
editDescendants
editFurther reading
edit- “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
editEtymology 1
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *hof, from Proto-Germanic *hufą.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithof n (nominative plural hofu)
Declension
editDescendants
editSee also
editEtymology 2
editFrom Proto-Germanic *hōfaz.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithōf m
- a hoof
Declension
editDescendants
edit- English: hoof
Old Frisian
editEtymology 1
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *hof, from Proto-Germanic *hufą, from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“to bend”). Cognates include Old English hof, Old Saxon hof and Old Dutch *hof.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithof n
Descendants
editEtymology 2
editFrom Proto-Germanic *hōfaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱoph₂ós. Cognates include Old English hōf, Old Saxon hōf and Old Dutch *huof.
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithōf m
Descendants
editReferences
edit- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN
Old Norse
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *hufą (“hill, house, temple”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edithof n (genitive hofs, plural hof)
- (Germanic paganism) shrine, typically in a home of a farm
- (rare) hall, house
- 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. […]
- […] the ale-ship [CAULDRON] out from our house […]
- 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:
- (late) a royal court
Usage notes
editOld Norse makes the distinction between hof "a hall, a sanctuary with a roof" and hǫrgr (“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-folk (“courtiers”).
Declension
editCoordinate terms
editDerived terms
edit- blóthof (“heathen temple”)
- hofferð (“pride, pomp”)
- hofferðugr (“proud”)
- hoffólk (“courtiers”)
- hoffrakt (“pomp”)
- hofgarðr (“lordly mansion”)
- hofgoði (“temple-priest”)
- hofgrið (“asylum in a sanctuary”)
- hofgyðja (“priestess”)
- hofhelgr (“temple-feast”)
- hoflist (“pomp”)
- hoflýðr (“courtiers”)
- hofmaðr (“courtier”)
- hofmóðugr (“haughty”)
- hofprestr (“temple-priest”)
- hofsdyrr (“temple-doors”)
- hofseiðr (“temple-oath”)
- hofsgoði (“temple-priest”)
- hofshelgi (“sanctity of a temple”)
- hofshurð (“temple-door”)
- hofshǫfðingi (“temple-lord”)
- hofsmold (“temple mold, holy mold”)
- hofstaðr (“sanctuary”)
- hofsteigr (“strip of temple-land”)
- hoftollr (“temple-toll, rate”)
- hoftyft (“urbanity”)
- hofvaerk (“great feat”)
- hofþénari (“court servant”)
Descendants
editReferences
edit- “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
editEtymology 1
editFrom Proto-West Germanic *hof, from Proto-Germanic *hufą.
Noun
edithof n
Descendants
edit- Middle Low German: hof
Etymology 2
editFrom Proto-Germanic *hōfaz.
Noun
edithōf m
- a hoof
Swedish
editEtymology 1
editNoun
edithof n
Declension
editDeclension of hof | ||||
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Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | hof | hofvet | hof | hofven |
Genitive | hofs | hofvets | hofs | hofvens |
Etymology 2
editNoun
edithof c
Declension
editDeclension of hof | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |||
Indefinite | Definite | Indefinite | Definite | |
Nominative | hof | hofven | hofvar | hofvarna |
Genitive | hofs | hofvens | hofvars | hofvarnas |
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