hod
English
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈhɑd/
- Rhymes: -ɑːd
- Rhymes: -ɒd
Etymology 1
Etymology uncertain, but apparently related to Scots hod (“to jog along on horseback”), Scots houd, howd (“to sway, rock from side to side, wriggle, bob up and down”). Probably all from Old English hūdenian (“to shake, sway, rock back and forth”), from Proto-Germanic *hud- (“to shake”). Related to Scots hodder (“to plod, stump or jog along”), Low German hūdern (“to shake, shudder”). Compare also hoddle.
Verb
hod (third-person singular simple present hods, present participle hodding, simple past and past participle hodded)
Etymology 2
Alteration of Middle English hott (“pannier”), from Old French hotte, from Frankish *hotta (“basket”).
Noun
hod (plural hods)
Related terms
Translations
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English hād, from Proto-Germanic *haiduz.
Pronunciation
Noun
hod (plural hodes)
- One's degree, level, office, or estate; one's position in relation to others
- A religious or clerical office, position, or calling.
- State, condition, one's position in relation to one's previous position.
- (Christianity) The Trinity; the three hypostases composing the Godhead.
Derived terms
References
- “họ̄d (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-07-12.
Etymology 2
From Old English hōd.
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *xodъ, from Proto-Indo-European *sod-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xôːd/
Slovak
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɦɔt/
Noun
hod m (genitive singular hodu, nominative plural hody, genitive plural hodov, declension pattern of dub)
Declension
Further reading
- hod in Slovak dictionaries at korpus.sk