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hom

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Homa.

hom (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of haoma (sacred plant)

From Dutch hem.

hom (subject hy, possessive sy)

  1. third-person singular object pronoun
    1. him (referring to a male person)

      Ek sien hom nie.

      I can’t see him.
    2. it (referring to a non-personal noun)

      Sy het my die boek gegee, maar ek het hom nog nie gelees nie.

      She gave me the book, but I haven’t read it yet.

Inherited from Old Catalan hom, from the nominative case of Latin homō (man). Its pronominal use is of Germanic origin. Compare Old English man (one, they, people), reduced form of Old English mann (man, person); French on; German man (one, they, people); Dutch men (one, they, people).

Doublet of home (man), from Old Catalan (h)ome(n), that continues the accusative case form hominem. There are very few Latin nouns that have been inherited in more than one case form, others include drac/dragó and res/re.

hom

  1. one, people, someone (an unspecified individual: indefinite personal pronoun)
    Hom diu que…It is said that…

Catalan personal pronouns and clitics

strong/subject weak (direct object) weak (indirect object) possessive
singular proclitic enclitic proclitic enclitic
1st person jo, mi3 em, m’ -me, ’m em, m’ -me, ’m meu
1st person majestic1 nós ens -nos, ’ns ens -nos, ’ns nostre
2nd person tu et, t’ -te, ’t et, t’ -te, ’t teu
2nd person formal1 vós us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
2nd person very formal2 vostè el, l’ -lo, ’l li -li seu
3rd person masculine ell el, l’ -lo, ’l li -li seu
3rd person feminine ella la, l’4 -la li -li seu
3rd person neuter ho -ho li -li seu
3rd person reflexive si es, s’ -se, ’s es, s’ -se, ’s seu
plural
1st person nosaltres ens -nos, ’ns ens -nos, ’ns nostre
2nd person vosaltres us -vos, -us us -vos, -us vostre
2nd person formal2 vostès els -los, ’ls els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person masculine ells els -los, ’ls els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person feminine elles les -les els -los, ’ls seu
3rd person reflexive si es, s’ -se, ’s es, s’ -se, ’s seu
adverbial
ablative/genitive en, n’ -ne, ’n
locative hi -hi
1) Behaves grammatically as plural.
2) Behaves grammatically as third person.
3) Only as object of a preposition.
4) Not before unstressed (h)i-, (h)u-.

From Middle Dutch homme, identical to homme (mold), of uncertain origin, but probably related to Old Norse húm (dusky, twilight), from Proto-Germanic *skim- (to shine-), which has been compared to Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (to cover),[1] but according to the Etymologisch Woordenboek this is extremely unlikely.[2]

hom f (plural hommen, diminutive hommetje n)

  1. (Netherlands) milt (fish semen)
  • Papiamentu: hom (dated)
  1. ^ Southern, M. R. V. (1999). Sub-grammatical survival : Indo-European s-mobile and its regeneration in Germanic. Washington: Institute for the Study of Man, p. 199
  2. ^ Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “hom”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands[1] (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

From Old English hām, from Proto-West Germanic *haim, from Proto-Germanic *haimaz.

hom (plural homes or heomen)

  1. home, residence, dwelling
  2. house, housing
  3. accommodation, rest
  4. (figuratively) seat, headquarters, centre
  5. (rare) village, town

hom

  1. home, homeward

hom

  1. Alternative form of hem (them)

hom (plural homes)

  1. Alternative form of hamme (enclosure, meadow)

hom

  1. Alternative form of whom (who, whom, accusative)

From Middle High German haben, from Old High German hāben, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną (to have; to hold). Cognate with German haben, English have.

hom

  1. to have
    Mu i hom a kòmmer as tschins?Can I have a room to rent?

From Old Norse hvammr. Doublet of kvam.

hom m (definite singular homen, indefinite plural homar, definite plural homane)

  1. a little vale

From Latin homō. The use as a pronoun is a calque from West Germanic (compare Middle High German man, Middle Dutch men).

hom m

  1. nominative singular of home (man)

hom

  1. one
  • French: on

hom

  1. First person singular possessive (medial position)
    my
  2. First person singular object
    me