hof

Borrowed from German Hof.

hof (plural hofs)

1. Enclosure, court, dwelling, building, house.
   • 1993 May, William, Trevor, Jake's Castle, in Harper's Magazine:

     Ulrike lived in a farm hof, and all around me were the dark blank fields punctuated by a few disparate lights.

   • 2009, Chloe Aridjis, Book of Clouds (New York: Black Cat, 1st edition):

     Like many old houses, this one had a front section, where I lived, and at the back an interior courtyard, the Hof, enclosed on all three sides by more apartments.

Borrowed from Old Norse hóf, reinforced in modern (post-1990, chiefly neopagan) use by Icelandic hof (“shrine, temple”).

• enPR: hōf, IPA^(key): /hoʊf/

hof (plural hofs)

1. (Neopaganism) temple, sanctuary, hall.
   • 1996, Varg Vikernes, cited after Gardell, Gods of the Blood, 2003, p. 307.

     For each ten churches burned to ashes, one heathen hof is avenged.

   • 2005, Michael Strmiska, Modern Paganism In World Cultures: Comparative Perspectives, p. 170.

     Asatruarfelagid lacks a central religious temple, or hof in Icelandic. Constructing a hof has been high on the members' wish list for many years.

Borrowed from Korean 호프 (hopeu), in turn from German Hofbräuhaus. In English, the spelling has been re-aligned with the Korean term's etymon.

hof (plural hofs)

1. A Korean-style bar or pub.
   • 2009, January 4, “Adam B. Ellick”, in In Queens: A Melting Pot, and a Closed Book‎:

     To the south are Korean spas, Korean barbecue joints and hofs, or Korean pubs.

• FOH, foh

hof m

1. garden

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

From Middle Dutch hof, from Old Dutch *hof, from Proto-Germanic *hufą.

• Rhymes: -ɔf

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hof n (plural hoven, diminutive hofje n)

1. (royal) court
2. court of law; short form of gerechtshof
3. court, yard
4. (East and West Flanders) garden

• → Papiamentu: hòfi

From Old Norse hof, from Proto-Germanic *hufą.

• IPA^(key): /hɔːv/
• Rhymes: -ɔːv

hof n (genitive singular hofs, nominative plural hof)

1. shrine, typically in a home on farm; by extension a temple

From Old Dutch *hof, from Proto-Germanic *hufą.

• IPA^(key): /hɔf/

hof n or m

1. court, enclosed space
2. garden
3. farmstead
4. castle (court of the nobility)

• hōvesch

• Dutch: hof
• Limburgish: haof, hoof

• “hof”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “hof (II)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

From Proto-Germanic *hufą.

• IPA^(key): /hof/

hof n (nominative plural hofu)

1. court, hall
2. house, building

• ærn n
• hūs n

From Proto-Germanic *hōfaz.

• IPA^(key): /hoːf/

hōf m

1. a hoof

• English: hoof

From Proto-Germanic *hufą (“hill, house, temple”).

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈhov/

hof n (genitive hofs, plural hof)

1. shrine, typically in a home of a farm
   • Vǫluspá, verse 7, lines 3-4, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 2:

     […] þeir er hörg ok hof / hátimbruðu, […]

     […] they who shrines and temples / high timbered, […]

2. a hall, court
   • Hymiskviða, verse 33, lines 3-4, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 48:

     […] út or óru / ölkjól hofi. […]

     […] forth from our house / the cauldron here. […]

3. a royal court

Old Norse makes the distinction between hof "a hall, a sanctuary with a roof" and hǫrgr "an altar, any cult site without a roof". The prevalent meaning of hof in Old Norse literature is "temple, sanctuary". Cleasby and Vigfússon (1874) note the generic meaning "a hall (as in German and Saxon)" in Hymiskviða 33 as a hapax legomenon. The meaning of "court" follows Middle High German and appears only from the 14th century and almost exclusively in compounds such as hof-ferð "pride, pomp", hof-garðr "lordly mansion", hof-fólk "courtiers".

• hof in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hof in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
• hof in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.

From Proto-Germanic *hufą.

hof n

1. dwelling, hovel, house
2. court, hall

From Proto-Germanic *hōfaz.

hōf m

1. a hoof

hof n

1. royal court; Obsolete spelling of hov
2. hoof; Obsolete spelling of hov