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hon

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English

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Etymology 1

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Shortened from honey.

The transgender slang sense derives from the supposedly abundant use of "hon" as a term of address by older transgender women, presumably as a way to verbally affect a femininity they are otherwise perceived by some to lack (due to not passing well), and is especially associated with the cliché phrase "you look great, hon". Derogatory sense likely came about from users of 4chan's /lgbt/ board mocking the discourse on transgender forum Susan's Place.

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Noun

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hon (plural hons)

  1. A term of endearment; Honey, sweetheart
    Hey, hon! How was your day at work?
    1. (Southern US) A friendly term of address.
  3. (4chan /lgbt/ slang, derogatory, offensive) A trans woman who does not pass; a clocky trans woman.
    Antonym: passoid
    This youngshit mogs me: I'm such a hon.
    • 2015 October 18, anonymous author, 4chan‎[2], /lgbt/:
      If you didn't experience that you'll end up one of those ugly SJW programmer transbian hons with dyed hair sucking each other's dicks while acting like men in every way possible.
    • [2018 June 10, @addamschloe, Twitter‎[3], archived from the original on 2022-05-07:
      [cw anti-trans slurs] I get that they're rarer than 'trap' (being used to describe trans women as intentional deceivers) but I'd like it if people could be equally hostile to the terms 'brick' and 'hon' honestly / it's all transmisic garbage]
    • [2018 July 10, @addamschloe, Twitter‎[4], archived from the original on 2021-06-05:
      'brick' refers to a trans woman who doesn't 'pass', 'hon' refers to a trans woman who doesn't pass and also is nice to other trans women who don't pass, particularly used against older trans women]
    • 2020 May 12, @MsBdUnicorn, Twitter‎[5], archived from the original on 2023-02-20:
      Consider the fact that /tttt/ calls any positive trans space a hugbox full of hons. We're still hung up about passing and it's so pathetic.
    • 2022 June 2, @stacycay, Twitter‎[6], archived from the original on 2022-11-15:
      listen hon, if you're a "biological boy" that's cool and all but the rest of us are trans women.
    • [2022 September 16, @mishawave, Twitter‎[7], archived from the original on 2022-11-15:
      i feel like that depends on how you're using it. referring to yourself as a "hon", or using it as a joke, sure. but calling other trans people hons directly or indirectly is a bit far imo. it's an insult about something specific, so it's different from general slurs like "tranny"]
    • 2019 April 16, Andrea James, “Transgender slang, slurs, and controversial words”, in Transgender Map‎[8], archived from the original on 2023-04-08:
      It [the word "hon"] comes from the cliché, "You look great, hon," which is often used by older transitioners who do not "pass."
    • 2018 August 17, Natalie Wynn, 24:45 from the start, in Incels‎[9], ContraPoints:
      On TTTT, a major piece of jargon is "hon," a slur used by trans women for other trans women.
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Terms derived from hon (transgender slang)
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Etymology 2

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The laugh probably originated as a parody of French singer and actor Maurice Chevalier (1888–1972) who was noted for his strong accent in English, and does not represent a typical French laugh.[1] The stereotype was popularized in Internet memes in the mid-2000s and 2010s.[2]

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hon

  2. (humorous) Representing a stereotypical French laugh.
    Hon hon hon, oui oui baguette!

Etymology 3

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Clipping of come on with devoicing of /m/. Compare c'mon.

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hon

  1. (Ireland, slang); (typically) cheering a sports team, especially a GAA team; exhortation or encouragement come on; congratulations well done, bravo.

Etymology 4

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Noun

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hon (plural hons)

  1. Alternative form of hoon (“Indian gold coin”)

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  1. ^ “Why do people think the French say 'hon hon hon' when they laugh?”, in The Local‎[1], 2017 March 14, archived from the original on 2017-09-14
  2. ^ “Hon Hon Hon”, in Know Your Meme, website first launched 2007

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Breton

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Etymology

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Compare Welsh ein. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term.

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Determiner

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hon

  1. our

Catalan

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Adverb

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hon

  1. Archaic form of on.

Further reading

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  • “hon” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

Chinese

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Etymology

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Clipping of English honours degree.

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hon

  1. (Hong Kong Cantonese, education) (classification of) honours degree
    first hon畢業／first hon毕业 [Hong Kong Cantonese]  ―  first on1 bat1 jip6 [Jyutping]  ―  to graduate with a first-class honour degree
    冇hon [Hong Kong Cantonese]  ―  mou5 on1 [Jyutping]  ―  [degree] without honours classification

Czech

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Etymology

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From Old Czech hon, from Proto-Slavic *gonъ, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *gánas, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰónos.

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Noun

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hon m inan

  1. hunt, chase
    hon na lišku ― fox hunt

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  • While lov may refer to any kind of hunting, hon refers only to those which involve chasing such as of ducks or fox.

Declension

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Declension of hon (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative hon hony
genitive honu honů
dative honu honům
accusative hon hony
vocative hone hony
locative honě, honu honech
instrumental honem hony
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Further reading

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  • “hon”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
  • “hon”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
  • “hon”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

Faroese

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Etymology

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From Old Norse hón, from Proto-Germanic *hēnō. Cognate with Icelandic hún, Danish hun and Norwegian Bokmål hun.

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Pronoun

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hon

  1. she

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Faroese personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative genitive
singular 1st person eg, jeg meg, mjeg mær mín
2nd person tú teg, tjeg tær tín
3rd person m hann honum hansara, hans†
f hon hana henni hennara, hennar†
n tað tí tess
plural 1st person vit okkum okkara
2nd person tit tykkum tykkara
3rd person m teir teimum, teim† teirra
f tær
n tey

French

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Etymology 1

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Imitative.

Interjection

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hon

  1. (dated) Representing laughter; ha, hon

Etymology 2

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Borrowed from English hon.

Noun

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hon f (plural hons)

  2. (4chan /lgbt/ slang, derogatory, offensive) hon

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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From the archaic honn (“at home”).

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Noun

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hon (plural honok)

  1. (literary) home, homeland, fatherland
    Synonym: haza

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Inflection (stem in -o-, back harmony)
singular plural
nominative hon honok
accusative hont honokat
dative honnak honoknak
instrumental honnal honokkal
causal-final honért honokért
translative honná honokká
terminative honig honokig
essive-formal honként honokként
essive-modal — —
inessive honban honokban
superessive honon honokon
adessive honnál honoknál
illative honba honokba
sublative honra honokra
allative honhoz honokhoz
elative honból honokból
delative honról honokról
ablative hontól honoktól
non-attributive
possessive – singular 		honé honoké
non-attributive
possessive – plural 		honéi honokéi
Possessive forms of hon
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. honom honaim
2nd person sing. honod honaid
3rd person sing. hona honai
1st person plural honunk honaink
2nd person plural honotok honaitok
3rd person plural honuk honaik

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Compound words

Further reading

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  • (homeland): hon in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.
  • (alternative form of honn (“at home”, rare, archaic)): hon in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

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Alternative forms

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  • honn (Altenhofen spelling)

Etymology

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    From Central Franconian han, from Middle High German hān, from Old High German habēn, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kap-.[1]

    Cognate with German haben, Luxembourgish hunn and Pennsylvania German hawwe.

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    • IPA(key): /ˈhɔn/
    • Rhymes: -ɔn
    • Syllabification: hon

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    hon

    1. to have
      Ich hon en gros Haus.
      I have a big house.
      Hod-der Zeid fer mich se hellfe?
      Do you have time to help me?
      Ich had en komischer Draam gester Nacht.
      I had a weird dream last night.
    2. (auxiliary, with a past participle) to have (forms the perfect)
      Er hod es gemach.
      He has done it.

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    Irregular with past tense and conditional mood
    infinitive hon
    participle gehad
    auxiliary hon
    present
    indicative     		past
    indicative     		conditional
    ich hon had häd
    du host hast häst
    er/sie/es hod had häd
    meer hon hade häde
    deer hod had häd
    sie hon hade häd

    The present participle is uncommonly used,
    but can be made with the suffix -end.

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    1. ^ Piter Kehoma Boll (2021) “hon”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português (in Portuguese), 3rd edition, Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 79, column 1

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    Etymology

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    From the archaic form hón.

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    hon (personal pronoun):

    1. (archaic) she

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    Icelandic personal pronouns
    singular first person second person third person
    masculine feminine neuter
    nominative ég, eg, ek† þú hann hún, hon†, hón† það, þat†
    accusative mig, mik† þig, þik† hann hana það, þat†
    dative mér þér honum, hánum† henni því
    genitive mín þín hans hennar þess
    plural first person second person third person
    masculine feminine neuter
    nominative við þið, þit† þeir þær þau
    accusative okkur ykkur þá þær þau
    dative okkur ykkur þeim þeim þeim
    genitive okkar ykkar þeirra þeirra þeirra

    † Archaic. See also honorific pronouns.

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    hon

    1. Rōmaji transcription of ほん

    Malay

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    Etymology

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    From English horn.

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    hon (Jawi spelling هون, plural hon-hon)

    1. automobile horn
      Synonym: klakson (Indonesian)

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    Middle English

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    Etymology 1

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    Borrowed from Middle Irish úain (“time”), from Old Irish úan (“loan”), from oidid (“to lend”). Compare Irish uain (“loan, time, leisure”), Scottish Gaelic on, oin (“loan, laziness”).

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    hon (uncountable)

    1. (Northern, North Midland) delay, hesitation
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    • Scots: hune

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    Verb

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    hon (third-person singular simple present honeth, present participle honende, honynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle honed)

    1. Alternative form of honen (“to linger”)

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    Preposition

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    hon

    1. Alternative form of on

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    Numeral

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    hon

    1. Alternative form of oon

    Pronoun

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    hon

    1. Alternative form of oon

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    Noun

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    hon (plural hones)

    1. Alternative form of hond

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    Verb

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    hon (third-person singular simple present hoþ, present participle honde, first-/third-person singular past indicative heng, past participle ihon)

    1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of hongen

    Old English

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    Etymology

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    From Proto-West Germanic *hą̄han.

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    hōn (transitive)

    1. to hang
    2. to suspend

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    Conjugation

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    Conjugation of hōn (strong class 7)
    infinitive hōn hōnne
    indicative mood present tense past tense
    first person singular hō hēng
    second person singular hēhst hēnge
    third person singular hēhþ hēng
    plural hōþ hēngon
    subjunctive present tense past tense
    singular hō hēnge
    plural hōn hēngen
    imperative
    singular hōh
    plural hōþ
    participle present past
    hōnde (ġe)hangen

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    hon m

    1. Alternative form of hom

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    Etymology

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    From Old Norse hón, from Proto-Germanic *hēnō.

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    hōn

    1. she

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    Old Swedish personal pronouns
    first person second person reflexive third person
    masculine feminine neuter
    singular
    nominative iak, iæk þū — han hōn þæt
    accusative mik, mek þik sik han hana, hōna þæt
    dative mǣ(r), mik þǣ(r), þik sǣ(r), sik hōnum, hānum hænni þȳ, þī
    genitive mīn þīn sīn hans hænna(r) þæs
    dual
    nominative vit it — — — —
    accusative oker *iker sik — — —
    dative oker *iker sǣr, sik — — —
    genitive okar *ikar sīn — — —
    plural
    nominative vī(r) ī(r) — þē(r) þā(r) þø̄n, þē(n)
    accusative os, ōs iþer sik þā þā(r) þø̄n, þē(n)
    dative os, ōs iþer sǣr, sik þēm, þø̄m, þom þēm, þø̄m, þom þēm, þø̄m, þom
    genitive vār iþar sīn þēra þēra þēra

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    Rohingya

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    Etymology

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    Cognate with Assamese কোন (kün), Hindi कौन (kaun), Romani kon.

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    hon

    1. who

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    Etymology 1

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    From Old Swedish hōn, from Old Norse hón, from Proto-Germanic *hēnō (compare *ainaz). Cognate with Icelandic hún, Danish hun and Norwegian Bokmål hun.

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    hon

    1. she; the third-person, singular, feminine pronoun in the nominative case
      Hon är mycket vacker.
      She is very beautiful.
    2. it (for certain nouns that were feminine in Old Swedish)
      Vad är hon?
      What (time) is it?
      Går hon bra?
      Is it (the car) working all right?
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    Swedish personal pronouns
    Number Person nominative oblique possessive
    common neuter plural
    singular first — jag mig, mej3 min mitt mina
    second — du dig, dej3 din ditt dina
    third masculine (person) han honom, han2, en5 hans
    feminine (person) hon henne, na5 hennes
    gender-neutral (person)1 hen hen, henom7 hens
    common (noun) den den dess
    neuter (noun) det det dess
    indefinite man or en4 en ens
    reflexive — sig, sej3 sin sitt sina
    plural first — vi oss vår, våran2 vårt, vårat2 våra
    second — ni er er, eran2, ers6 ert, erat2 era
    archaic I eder eder, eders6 edert edra
    third — de, dom3 dem, dom3 deras
    reflexive — sig, sej3 sin sitt sina
    1Neologism. Usage has increased since 2010, though it remains limited.
    2Informal
    4Dialectal, also used lately as an alternative to man, to avoid association to the male gender.
    5Informal, somewhat dialectal
    6Formal address
    7Discouraged by the Swedish Language Council

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    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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    hon

    1. definite singular of ho

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    Vilamovian

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    Etymology

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    From Middle High German haben, from Old High German havēn, northern variant of habēn.

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    hon

    1. to have

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    Etymology

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    From Proto-Celtic *sindos. Compare hyn (“these”).

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    hon f

    1. (formal) (in conjunction with the definite article y) this
      Mae'r nofel hon yn well o lawer na'r nofel honno.
      This novel is a lot better than that novel.
      Mae'r holl sefyllfa hon yn benbleth fawr.
      This entire situation is real condundrum.

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    • Refers to grammatically feminine singular nouns, hwn (“this”) being the masculine singular and hyn (“this”) the (masculine and feminine) plural equivalents.
    • In informal language, hon as a determiner is replaced with yma (“there”) used in conjunction with the definite article y, or in some southern dialects with the definite article and hyn.
      (formal) y ddadl hon ― this debate
      = (informal) y ddadl 'ma
      = (South Wales, informal) y ddadl hyn
      (formal) yr eiliad hon ― this second
      = (informal) yr eiliad 'ma
      = (South Wales, informal) yr eiliad hyn

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    hon f

    1. this
      Mae hon yn well o lawer na honno.
      This is a lot better than that.
      Mae hon yn benbleth fawr.
      This is real condundrum.

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    • Refers to grammatically feminine singular nouns, hwn (“this”) being the masculine singular equivalent. In addition, hyn (“this”) is used nonreferentially, for example, when talking about a general situation, action or event, rather than any particular noun.
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    References

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    • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “hon”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

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    Pronoun

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    hon

    1. First person dual subject (medial position)
      we two
    2. First person plural subject (medial position)
      we (three or more)
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    Zuni personal pronouns
    singular dual plural
    1st person (medial) ho' hon hon
    1st person (final) hoo'o ho'no ho'no
    2nd person (medial) to' ton ton
    2nd person (final) too'o to'no to'no
    3rd person (medial) — 'aachi —
    3rd person (final) — 'aachi —
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