hio

hio

1. inflection of hioa:
   1. present active indicative connegative
   2. second-person singular present imperative
   3. second-person singular present active imperative connegative

• hoi, iho, ohi, ohi-

From Proto-Nuclear Polynesian *fio (“whistle”). Cognate with Maori whio (“whistle”), Tahitian hio (“whistle”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhi.o/, [ˈhi.jo]

hio

1. (intransitive) to blow in gusts
2. to fart silently

   Coordinate term: pūhiʻu

• hihio (“soft whistling sound”)
• hiohio (“whistle softly”, verb)

hio

1. gust (of wind)
2. inside corners of a house (said to be where ghosts come to whistle)

• hio in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

From Hokkien, specifically Zhangzhou Hokkien 香 (hioⁿ, “joss stick; incense”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈhio̯/
• Hyphenation: hio

hio (plural hio-hio)

1. (Taoism, Buddhism, Confucianism) joss stick; incense

   Synonyms: dupa, kemenyan, luban, setanggi

• “hio” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

hio

1. Rōmaji transcription of ひお

From Proto-Italic *hiāō, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰh₁i-eh₂-yé-ti, from *ǵʰeh₂- (“to gape, be wide open”). Cognates include Ancient Greek χάσκω (kháskō), Tocharian A śew, Tocharian B kāyā, Lithuanian žioti, Russian зия́ть (zijátʹ), Sanskrit विजिहीते (vijihīte), and Proto-Germanic *gīnaną, *ganōną (English yawn).^[1]

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈhi.oː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈiː.o]

hiō (present infinitive hiāre, perfect active hiāvī, supine hiātum); first conjugation, no passive

1. to yawn, gape
2. to stand open
3. (of speech) to pause, connect badly
4. (figuratively) to be amazed, gape in wonder
5. to bawl out, utter, sing

• “hio”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hio”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hio in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

hio

1. alternative form of he (“they”)

• hiu, hia, hēo

From Proto-Germanic *hijō f (“this, this one”).

• IPA^(key): /xi͜uː/, [hi͜uː]

hīo f (accusative hīe, genitive hiere, dative hiere)

1. she
2. it (when the thing being referred to is feminine)

• Middle English: heo
  • English: heo, hoo

• hiū

From Proto-West Germanic *hiju, from Proto-Germanic *hijō f (“this, this one”). Akin to Old English hēo.

hiū f (accusative hiā, genitive hiāre, dative hiāre)

1. she
2. it (when the thing being referred to is feminine)

• Saterland Frisian: jo, ju
• West Frisian: so, sy, se