hor

See also: hoor, hór, hör, and hør

English

Pronoun

hor (personal pronoun)

  1. (Geordie) her

References

  • Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin,
  • Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977
  • Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4

Anagrams

Basque

Etymology 1

Pronoun

hor

  1. there

Etymology 2

From Proto-Basque *hor.

Alternative forms

Noun

hor

  1. (Zuberoan) dog

Breton

Determiner

hor

  1. our

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hór.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hoːr/, [hoɐ̯ˀ]
  • Rhymes: -oːɐ̯

Noun

hor n (singular definite horet, not used in plural form)

  1. (dated) adultery
  2. lechery, whoring, fornication

Declension

Verb

hor

  1. imperative of hore

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch horde (“braided latticework”).

Pronunciation

  • Audio(file)

Noun

hor f (plural horren, diminutive horretje n)

  1. insect screen

Icelandic

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɔːr/
  • Rhymes: -ɔːr

Etymology 1

From Old Norse horr, from Proto-Germanic *hurhwą (“dirt, mucus”).

Noun

hor m (genitive singular hors, no plural)

  1. snot, mucus (from the nose)
Declension
Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse horr, from a nominalization of Proto-Germanic *hurhaz (“lean, thin”).

Noun

hor m (genitive singular hors, no plural)

  1. emaciation, famine
Declension
Synonyms
  • (emaciation): megurð
Derived terms

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hēr.

Noun

hor

  1. Alternative form of her (“hair”)

Etymology 2

From Old English hār, from Proto-Germanic *hairaz.

Alternative forms

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hɔːr/

Adjective

hor

  1. grey, greyish, grey-white (usually referring to hair)
  2. Having white or gray hair
  3. Old, advanced in age
Descendants
References

Noun

hor

  1. An elderly person; a senior
  2. Old age; elderliness
Descendants
References

See also

Colors in Middle English · coloures, hewes (layout · text)
     whit      grey, hor      blak      broun, tawne
             claret              red ; cremesyn, gernet              citrine, aumbre              yelow, dorry ; canevas
             grasgrene              grene                           plunket ; ewage
             asure, livid              blewe, blo, pers              violet ; inde              rose, murrey ; purpel

Etymology 3

Pronoun

hor

  1. Alternative form of hire

References

Etymology 4

Determiner

hor

  1. (chiefly early and West Midland dialectal) Alternative form of here (“their”)
References

Mòcheno

Noun

hor ? (plural [please provide])

  1. hair

References

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

Old Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse hór, from Proto-Germanic *hōrą.

Noun

hōr n

  1. adultery

Declension

Descendants

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Greek χορός (chorós).

Noun

hor m (Cyrillic spelling хор)

  1. chorus
  2. choir

Somali

Noun

hor ?

  1. in front

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish hōr, from Old Norse hór, from Proto-Germanic *hōrą, from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂ro- (“loved”). Related to English whore.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /huːr/

Noun

hor n (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) adultery, fornication (marital infidelity, as opposed to sexual interaction between human and, among others, fallen angel): begå hor “commit adultery”
    Hon fick tjugo rapp på torget för att hon begått hor.
    She received twenty lashes in the public square for committing adultery.

Declension

Declension of hor 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative hor horet — —
Genitive hors horets — —

References

Zazaki

Alternative forms

Noun

hor m (plural hori)

  1. cloud
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