hoog

From Dutch hoog.

• IPA^(key): /ɦʊəχ/

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hoog (attributive hoë, comparative hoër, superlative hoogste)

1. high

• laag

• hooge (archaic)

From Middle Dutch hooch, the original inflected stem hō- reanalysed by analogy with the uninflected form because of word-final devoicing. From Old Dutch hōh, from Proto-West Germanic *hauh, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz.

Cognate with German hoch, West Frisian heech, Saterland Frisian hag, English high, Danish høj.

• IPA^(key): /ɦoːx/

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• Hyphenation: hoog
• Rhymes: -oːx

hoog (comparative hoger, superlative hoogst)

1. high

   De 887 meter hoge Mount Scenery is het hoogste punt in het Koninkrijk der Nederlanden. ― The 887-metres-high Mount Scenery is the highest place in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

   Het zou te hoog gegrepen zijn om drie talen tegelijkertijd te leren. ― Learning three languages simultaneously would be aiming too high.

• laag

• Afrikaans: hoog
• Berbice Creole Dutch: hogo
• Jersey Dutch: hôx
• Negerhollands: hoog, hok
• Skepi Creole Dutch: hug, oag

From Proto-Finnic *hooku.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhoːɡ̊/, [ˈ(h)oːɡ̊]
• Rhymes: -oːɡ
• Hyphenation: hoog

hoog (genitive hoo, partitive hoogu)

1. impetus
2. acceleration
3. speed, velocity
4. gust
5. fit
6. seizure
7. attack, assault

• hoog in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “hoog”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

From Old Frisian hāch, from Proto-West Germanic *hauh. Cognates include West Frisian heech and German hoch.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhoːɣ/
• Hyphenation: hoog
• Rhymes: -oːɣ

hoog (masculine hogen, feminine, plural or definite hoge, comparative hager, superlative hagst, hoogst)

1. high
2. difficult

• Marron C. Fort (2015) “hoog”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN