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hón

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Hungarian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Uralic *kone. Cognates include Northern Mansi ханул (hanul), Finnish kainalo and Estonian kaenal.[1][2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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hón (usually uncountable, plural hónok)

  1. (with a possessive suffix): armpit, underarm, (under) someone’s arm
    a hónom alattunder my arm

Declension

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Possessive forms of hón
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. hónom hónaim
2nd person sing. hónod hónaid
3rd person sing. hóna hónai
1st person plural hónunk hónaink
2nd person plural hónotok hónaitok
3rd person plural hónuk hónaik

Derived terms

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Compound words

References

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  1. ^ Entry #348 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
  2. ^ hón in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

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  • hón 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.

Icelandic

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old Norse hón.

Pronoun

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hón (personal pronoun)

  1. (archaic) she
    Var hón kvenna fríðust.
    And she was the fairest of all women.

Declension

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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.


Old Norse

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Etymology

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From older hǫ́n, from Proto-Norse *ᚺᚨᚾᚢ (*hanu /⁠*hānu⁠/), from a prefixed form of Proto-Germanic *ainaz (one).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • (9th century West Norse) IPA(key): /hɒ̃ːn/

Pronoun

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hón

  1. she (third-person nominative singular feminine personal pronoun)

Declension

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: hún
  • Faroese: hon
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: ho; (dialectal) hon, , hu
    • Norwegian Bokmål: ho (obsolete)
  • Elfdalian: ą̊
  • Old Swedish: hōn
  • Danish: hun
    • Norwegian Bokmål: hun
  • Old Gutnish: han

References

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  1. ^ Lander, E. T. (2020). The History of the Reinforced Demonstrative in Nordic: Regional Variation and Reconstruction. Netherlands: Brill, p. 10