hoes

See also: hös

English

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -əʊz

Noun

hoes

  1. plural of hoe
  2. plural of ho

Verb

hoes

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative form of hoe

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French housse (“slipcase”), or from an Old French or Picard form of this word.

Pronunciation
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -us

Noun

hoes f (plural hoezen, diminutive hoesje n)

  1. cover
    platenhoes — album cover

Derived terms

Dutch Low Saxon

Noun

hoes n (plural huze, dimunitive huuske)

  1. house

Limburgish

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch huus, from Old Dutch hūs, from Proto-Germanic *hūsą.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ɦuː˨s]

Noun

hoes n

  1. house
  2. home
  3. building
Inflection
Inflection
Root singular Root plural Diminutive singular Diminutive plural
Nominative hoes hoezer huuske huuskes
Genitive hoezes hoezer huuskes huuskes
Locative heives heiveser heiveske heiveskes
Dative¹ hoeze hoezer heivemske heivemskes
Accusative¹ hoes hoezern huuske huuskes
  • Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, use nominative instead.
See also

Etymology 2

Related to Dutch hoes.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ɦu˦s]

Noun

hoes f

  1. cover
Inflection
Inflection
Root singular Root plural Diminutive singular Diminutive plural
Nominative hoes hoeze huuske huuskes
Genitive hoezes hoeze huuskes huuskes
Locative hoezes hoezeser  ?  ?
Dative¹  ?  ?  ?  ?
Accusative¹ hoes² hoeze²  ?  ?
  • Dative and accusative are nowadays obsolete, use nominative instead.
  • Reconstructed using regular conjugations.

Middle English

Pronoun

hoes

  1. (Late Middle English, rare) Alternative form of whos (“whose”, genitive)

Welsh

Noun

hoes

  1. h-prothesized form of oes

Verb

hoes

  1. h-prothesized form of oes

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radicalsoftnasalh-prothesis
oes unchanged unchanged hoes
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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