hure
Ainu
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hu.ɾe/
Dutch
French
Etymology
Uncertain; probably Germanic.
Pronunciation
- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /yʁ/
Derived terms
Further reading
- “hure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
German
Pronunciation
Audio (file)
Verb
hure
- inflection of huren:
- first-person singular present
- first/third-person singular subjunctive I
- singular imperative
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English huru (“at least, especially”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhur(ə)/
Adverb
hure
- at intervals, frequent, at least, in any case
- hure and hure
- at intervals
- la hure
- at least
- 1225, Dialogue on Vices and Virtue:
- And ðo þe on annesse wuniᵹen ne muᵹen, hure and hure, ðanne hie willeð here ibede to godde bidden, swa derneliche swa hie muᵹen, swa don hie.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- especially, particularly; much less
- (Can we date this quote?), Hali Meidenhad:
- Ne kepeð he wið na mon, & hure wið his famon, nan half dale.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- truly, certainly, indeed
- 1225, Trinity Homilies:
- Nis nefre no stede to strene bicumeliche bute hie ben bispused rihtliche to-gedere, ne hure riht time þenne men fasten shal oðer halgen.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- even
- 1225, Lambeth Homilies:
- Ne mihte þer nan wiðstonden, ne prophete, ne patriarche ne hure Sancte iohannes baptiste.
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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