hom

See also: Hom, hôm, hǫm, hợm, hom., and HOM

Symbol

hom

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

Noun

hom (uncountable)

Alternative form of haoma (“sacred plant”)

Etymology

From Dutch hem.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hɔm/
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Pronoun

hom (subject hy, possessive sy)

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.

Synonyms

(it): dit

Etymology

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.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia) [ˈɔm]

Pronoun

hom

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

Declension

More information strong/subject, weak (direct object) ...

	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-.

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Catalan personal pronouns and clitics

Etymology

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]

Pronunciation

Audio: (file)

Noun

hom f (plural hommen, diminutive hommetje n)

(Netherlands) milt (fish semen)

Derived terms

hommer

Descendants

→ Papiamentu: hom (dated)

References

[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 (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈhum/ [ˈhom]
Rhymes: -um
Syllabification: hom

Pronoun

hom (Hanunoo spelling ᜱᜳᜫ᜴) (literary)

Alternative form of ho

Etymology 1

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /hɔːm/
Rhymes: -ɔːm

Noun

hom (plural homes or heomen)

home, residence, dwelling
house, housing
accommodation, rest
(figuratively) seat, headquarters, centre
(rare) village, town

Alternative forms

hoom, home, hoome, whom, om, am; hame (Northern); ham (Early Middle English)

Adverb

hom

home, homeward

Related terms

homly, homely, homli
homward

Descendants

English: home, -ham (partially)
Geordie English: hyem
Scots: hame
Yola: hime, hyme, haime

References

“hōm, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
“hōm, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

hom

Alternative form of hem (“them”)

Etymology 3

Noun

hom (plural homes)

Alternative form of hamme (“enclosure, meadow”)

Etymology 4

Pronoun

hom

Alternative form of whom (“who, whom”, accusative)

Etymology

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.

Verb

hom

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

References

“hom” in Cimbrian, Ladin, Mòcheno: Getting to know 3 peoples. 2015. Servizio minoranze linguistiche locali della Provincia autonoma di Trento, Trento, Italy.
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

Etymology

From Old Norse hvammr. Doublet of kvam.

Noun

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

a little vale

References

“hom” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Anagrams

ohm

Noun

hom f

Alternative form of ham

Alternative forms

hum, huem, hon, om, on

Etymology

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

Noun

hom m

nominative singular of home (“man”)

Pronoun

hom

one

Descendants

French: on

Pronoun

hom

First person singular possessive (medial position)
my
First person singular object
me

Related terms

ho'
homma

[1] [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] [2]
Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “hom”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands‎ (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press

[1]

[2]

		subjective	objective	possessive determiner	possessive pronoun
singular	1st	ek	my		myne
	2nd	jy	jou		joune
	2nd, formal	u			u s’n
	3rd, masc	hy	hom	sy	syne
	3rd, fem	sy	haar		hare
	3rd, neut	dit		sy	syne
plural	1st	ons			ons s’n
	2nd	julle / jul¹			julle s’n
	3rd	hulle / hul¹			hulle s’n
1. The forms jul and hul are unstressed variants. They are used mostly in possessive function, but also otherwise, chiefly when the pronoun is repeated within the same sentence.

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