houve

Galician

Verb

houve

(reintegrationist norm) first/third-person singular preterite indicative of haver

Middle English

Alternative forms

houe, houfe, houffe, houwe, howe, howfe, howve
huve (Early Middle English)

Etymology

From Old English hūfe (“a covering for the head”), from Proto-West Germanic *hūbā, from Proto-Germanic *hūbǭ (“hood, cowl”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“to bend, curve, vault”).

Cognate with Dutch huif (“hood, tent”), German Haube (“hood, bonnet, cap”), Swedish huva (“hood, bonnet, cap”), Icelandic húfa (“cap”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈhuːv(ə)/
(Northern) IPA^(key): /ˈhuː(v)/, /ˈhuː(f)/

Noun

houve (plural houves)

A head covering of various kinds; a hood; a coif; a cap.
I pray yow alle, that ye nat yow greve,
Thogh I answere, and somdeel sette his howve
- Chaucer, The Reeve's Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, ll.56-57
(specifically) A lawyer's coif.

Descendants

Scots: how, hou

References

“hǒuve, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈo(w).vi/ [ˈo(ʊ̯).vi]
- (Southern Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈo(w).ve/ [ˈo(ʊ̯).ve]

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈo(w).vɨ/
- (Northern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈow.bɨ/ [ˈow.βɨ]
- (Southern Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈo.vɨ/

Homophone: ouve
Hyphenation: hou‧ve

Verb

houve

first/third-person singular preterite indicative of haver