hoved

See also: hoved-

English

Verb

hoved

1. (nonstandard) Misconstruction of hove (as past tense of heave)
   • 2009, Liz Hunt, The Daily Telegraph, 18 Aug, "The Material Girl lives up to her name":

     So how the hearts of the paps must have leapt as Madonna plus children – and lover Jesus – hoved into view off the coast of Italy this week.

Anagrams

• Dovhe, Hovde

Danish

Alternative forms

• hode, hoed (pronunciation spellings)

Etymology

From Old Norse hǫfuð, haufuð, from Proto-Germanic *hafudą or *habudą, northern form of *haubudą, cf. English head, German Haupt, Dutch hoofd. The Germanic word goes back to Proto-Indo-European *káput, cognate with Latin caput (“head”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhoːəð/, [ˈho̝ːð̩˕˗ˠ]

Noun

hoved n (singular definite hovedet, plural indefinite hoveder)

1. head (the body part with the brain and main sense organs)
2. mind (the cognitive activities of a human being)
3. person
4. (figuratively) head (something with a form or a position that resembles a head, e.g. a vegetable or a page)

Declension

Declension of hoved

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hoved	hovedet	hoveder	hovederne
genitive	hoveds	hovedets	hoveders	hovedernes

Derived terms

• hoved-
• hovedbeklædning
• hovedløs
• hovedperson
• hovedpine
• hovedpude
• hovedregning
• hovedskal

 

Descendants

• Norwegian Bokmål: hoved, hode

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Danish hoved.

Noun

hoved n (definite singular hovedet, indefinite plural hoveder, definite plural hovedene)

1. (archaic) alternative form of hode (“head”)

Related terms

• hoved-