hoen

See also: -hön

Dutch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Dutch hoen, from Old Dutch *huon, from Proto-West Germanic *hōn, from Proto-Germanic *hōną. Cognate with German Huhn, Low German Hohn.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ɦun/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -un

Noun

hoen n (plural hoenders or hoenderen or hoenen, diminutive hoentje n)

  1. (zoology) A fowl, a gallinaceous bird
  2. the domestic chicken, genus Gallus
  3. (hunting) the partridge

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Afrikaans: hoender
  • Negerhollands: hoener, hundu, hunder, hun
    • → Virgin Islands Creole: hundu (dated)

Finnish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈhoen/, [ˈho̞e̞n]
  • Rhymes: -oen
  • Syllabification(key): ho‧en

Verb

hoen

  1. first-person singular present indicative of hokea

Anagrams

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

Adjective

hoen • (欣, 歡, 𤸧)

  1. soiled, smeared

See also
Derived terms
  • hoen ố
  • hoen rỉ

Welsh

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle Welsh hoen, from Proto-Celtic *sognos, from Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- (“to overpower”), but Matasovic calls the difference in meaning "conspicuous."[1] See the adjective hy (“bold, brave”).

Noun

hoen f (plural hoenau, not mutable)

  1. joy, gaiety, gladness
    Synonyms: llawenydd, llonder
  2. liveliness, vivacity
    Synonyms: bywiogrwydd, hoenusrwydd
Derived terms
  • di-hoen (“joyless, lackluster”)
  • hoenus (“lively, vivacious, sprightly”)

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009), “sego”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 327

Noun

hoen

  1. h-prothesized form of oen (“lamb”)

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