hond

From Dutch hond.

• IPA^(key): /ɦɔnt/

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hond (plural honde, diminutive hondjie)

1. dog

• IPA^(key): /ɦɔnt/

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• Hyphenation: hond
• Rhymes: -ɔnt

From Middle Dutch hont, from Old Dutch hunt, from Proto-West Germanic *hund, from Proto-Germanic *hundaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwn̥tós, from *ḱwṓ. Cognate to German Hund, English hound.

hond m (plural honden, diminutive hondje n)

1. dog (Canis lupus familiaris)

   De hond rent achter de bal aan.

   The dog is running after the ball.

   Zijn hond is zijn beste vriend.

   His dog is his best friend.

   Het hondje speelt in de tuin.

   The little dog is playing in the garden.

2. (derogatory) A derogatory term for a human; a reprehensible person

• Afrikaans: hond
• Berbice Creole Dutch: hondo
• Jersey Dutch: hônt
• Negerhollands: hond, hon, hont, hun
  • → Virgin Islands Creole: hont (dated)

From Middle Dutch hont, from Old Dutch *hunt, from Proto-Germanic *hundą. Related to honderd.

hond n (plural honden, diminutive hondje n)

1. (obsolete) an old unit of area measuring 100 roeden, approximately 0.14 hectares

From Old Norse hǫnd, from Proto-Germanic *handuz.

• IPA^(key): /hɔnt/

  Rhymes: -ɔnt

hond f (genitive singular handar, plural hendur)

1. hand
2. arm

   Synonym: armur

3. handful
4. handwriting

   Synonym: handskrift

5. signature

   Synonym: undirskrift

6. side (right or left)

   Synonyms: síða, lið

7. (obsolete) little halibut

   Synonym: lógvi

Declension of hond
f9	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hond	hondin	hendur	hendurnar
accusative	hond	hondina	hendur	hendurnar
dative	hond	hondini	hondum	hondunum
genitive	handar	handarinnar	handa	handanna

The original dative singular, hendi, also occurs, but rarely.

From Old English hand, hond (“hand”).

• honde, hand, hande, hoond, haunde

• IPA^(key): /hɔnd/, /hɔːnd/

hond (plural hondes or honden or hond)

1. hand
   • a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Psalm 143:1”, in Wycliffe's Bible:

     Blessid be my Lord God, that techith myn hondis to werre and my fyngris to batel.

     Blessed be my Lord God, who teaches my hands to war and my fingers to battle.

• English: hand
• Scots: hand, haund
• Yola: hoane, hoan, hone

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

From Old English hund (“dog”).

hond

1. Alternative form of hound

• IPA^(key): /xond/, [hond]

hond f

1. Alternative form of hand

• hand

From Proto-West Germanic *handu. Cognates include Old English hand and Old Saxon hand.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhond/

hond f

1. (anatomy) hand

• North Frisian:
  • Föhr-Amrum: hun
  • Hallig: höön
  • Heligoland: Hun
  • Mooring: hönj
  • North Goesharde: houn
• Saterland Frisian: Hounde
• West Frisian: hân

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN

hond f

1. Alternative form of hand