hom

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

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch hem.

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

Catalan

Etymology

From Old Catalan hom, reduced form of home (“man”) used as a pronoun, from 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”).

Pronunciation

(Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈɔm/

Pronoun

hom

one, people, someone (an unspecified individual: indefinite personal pronoun).

Declension

Catalan personal pronouns and clitics

	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-.

Dutch

Pronunciation

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Noun

hom f (plural hommen, diminutive hommetje n)

(Netherlands) milt, fish semen

Middle English

Etymology 1

See home

Noun

hom (plural homes)

Alternative form of home

Descendants

English: home

Etymology 2

Pronoun

hom

Alternative form of hem

References

“hem, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.

Mòcheno

Verb

hom

to have

References

Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Old French

Alternative forms

om
on

Noun

hom m

nominative singular of home

Zuni

Pronoun

hom

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

Related terms

ho'
homma

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		subjective	objective	possessive
singular	1st	ek	my
	2nd	jy	jou
	2nd, formal	u
	3rd, masc	hy	hom	sy
	3rd, fem	sy	haar
	3rd, neut	dit		sy
plural	1st	ons
	2nd	julle		julle / jul¹
	3rd	hulle		hulle / hul¹
1. In the second and third persons plural, the usual possessive forms are julle and hulle (like the subjective and objective forms), but jul and hul are sometimes used instead when the sentence would otherwise be ambiguous.