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This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂wp-os, from *keh₂wp- (“to bend, arch, vault”). Related to *haupaz (“heap”); see there for more.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
*hufą n
- hill, elevated place
- house, hall, estate
Inflection
Declension of *hufą (neuter a-stem)
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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*hufą
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*hufō
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| vocative
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*hufą
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*hufō
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| accusative
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*hufą
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*hufō
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| genitive
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*hufas, *hufis
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*hufǫ̂
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| dative
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*hufai
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*hufamaz
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| instrumental
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*hufō
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*hufamiz
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Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *hof
- Old English: hof
- Middle English: *hof, *hove
- Scots: hoff, howf, hoif, hoiff
- ⇒ Middle English: hovel, hovil, hovylle (diminutive)
- Old Frisian: hof
- Old Saxon: hof
- Middle Low German: hof
- German Low German: Hoff
- Plautdietsch: Hoff
- → Danish: hof
- → Estonian: hoov
- → Norwegian: hoff
- → Old Swedish: hof
- Swedish: hov, hof (up until the 1906 spelling reform)
- → Finnish: hovi
- Frankish: *huf, *hof
- Old Dutch: *hof
- Middle Dutch: hof
- Dutch: hof
- Afrikaans: hof
- Negerhollands: hofje, hofi, hoffie (from the diminutive)
- → Papiamentu: hòfi, hoffie (from the diminutive)
- Limburgish: haof, hoof
- → Scots: howf, hauf, houf, houff, houffe, hooff, howff
- →⇒ Old French: huvelet
- Old High German: hof
- Middle High German: hof
- Bavarian: Hof
- Central Franconian: Hoff, Hof, Hoaf
- German: Hof, Hoff (in family names, otherwise obsolete)
- Pennsylvania German: Hof
- Yiddish: הויף (hoyf)
- Old Norse: hof
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*haupa-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 252
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