hogg
English edit
Etymology edit
See hogget (“young sheep”)
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /hɒɡ/
- (US) IPA(key): /hɑɡ/, /hɔːɡ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒɡ
- Homophone: hog
Noun edit
hogg (plural hoggs)
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Alternative forms edit
- hogde (of simple past)
Verb edit
hogg
- simple past of hogge
- imperative of hogge
Norwegian Nynorsk edit
Verb edit
hogg
- inflection of hogga:
Old English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Uncertain. Possibly derived from Old Norse hǫggva (“to strike, chop, cut”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną (“to hew, forge”).
Alternatively, perhaps from Celtic, compare Welsh hwch (“sow”), Cornish hoch (“pig”) (whence probably modern English hoggan (“pork pasty”));[1] however, the possibility of British Celtic origin [Watkins, etc.] is regarded by OED as "improbable.".[2]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
hogg m (nominative plural hoggas)
Declension edit
Declension of hogg (strong a-stem)
Descendants edit
References edit
- ^ Angus Stevenson, Oxford Dictionary of English (2010), page 834
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “hog”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.