hogh

English

Alternative forms

hough, how (dialectal and in placenames)

Etymology

From Middle English hough (“promontory”), from Old English hōh.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /həʊ/
Rhymes: -əʊ
Homophone: hoe

Noun

hogh (plural hoghs)

(obsolete) A hill; a cliff.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  The westerne Hogh, besprincled with the gore Of mighty Goëmot

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hogh”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Cornish

Etymology

From Old Cornish hoch, from Proto-Brythonic *hux, from Proto-Celtic *sukkos, from Proto-Indo-European *suh₁- (“swine”).

Pronunciation

(Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key): [hɔːx]
(Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): [hoːʰ]

Noun

hogh m (plural hohes)

pig

Synonyms

porhel

Related terms

mogh

Middle English

Noun

hogh

Alternative form of hough (“hough, hock”)

Noun

hogh

Alternative form of hough (“promontory”)

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.