houve

Galician

Verb

houve

1. (reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular preterite indicative of haver

Middle English

Alternative forms

• houe, houfe, houffe, houwe, howe, howfe, howve
• huve (Early Middle English)

Etymology

From Old English hūfe (“a covering for the head”), from Proto-West Germanic *hūbā, from Proto-Germanic *hūbǭ (“hood, cowl”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“to bend, curve, vault”).

Cognate with Dutch huif (“hood, tent”), German Haube (“hood, bonnet, cap”), Swedish huva (“hood, bonnet, cap”), Icelandic húfa (“cap”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhuːv(ə)/
• (Northern) IPA^(key): /ˈhuː(v)/, /ˈhuː(f)/

Noun

houve (plural houves)

1. A head covering of various kinds; a hood; a coif; a cap.

   I pray yow alle, that ye nat yow greve,
   Thogh I answere, and somdeel sette his howve
   - Chaucer, The Reeve's Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, ll.56-57

2. (specifically) A lawyer's coif.

Descendants

• Scots: how, hou

References

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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈo(w).vi/ [ˈo(ʊ̯).vi]

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈo(w).vi/ [ˈo(ʊ̯).vi]
  • (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈo(w).ve/ [ˈo(ʊ̯).ve]

 

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈo(w).vɨ/

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈo(w).vɨ/
  • (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈow.bɨ/ [ˈow.βɨ]
  • (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈo.vɨ/

• Homophone: ouve
• Hyphenation: hou‧ve

Verb

houve

1. first/third-person singular preterite indicative of haver