different between hove vs hope

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /h??v/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ho?v/
• Rhymes: -??v

Etymology 1

From Middle English hoven (“to linger, wait, hover, move aside, entertain, cherish, foster”), from Old English *hofian (“to receive into one's house”), from Proto-Germanic *huf?n? (“to house, lodge”), from Proto-Germanic *huf? (“hill, height, farm, dwelling”), from Proto-Indo-European *keup- (“to arch, bend, buckle”). Cognate with Old Frisian hovia (“to receive into one's home, entertain”), Old Dutch hoven (“to receive into one's home, entertain”). Related to Old English hof (“court, house, dwelling”). More at hovel.

Verb

hove (third-person singular simple present hoves, present participle hoving, simple past and past participle hoved)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To remain suspended in air, water etc.; to float, to hover.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.7:

     As shee arrived on the roring shore, / In minde to leape into the mighty maine, / A little bote lay hoving her before […].

2. (obsolete, intransitive) To wait, linger.
3. (obsolete, intransitive) To move on or by.
4. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To remain; delay.
5. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To remain stationary (usually on horseback).

Alternative forms

• huve, huff, houf (Scotland)

Etymology 2

From Middle English hoven, alteration (due to hove, hoven, past tense and past participle of heven (“to heave”)). More at heave.

Verb

hove (third-person singular simple present hoves, present participle hoving, simple past and past participle hoved)

1. (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To raise; lift; hold up.
2. (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To rise.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:

     Astond he stood, and vp his haire did houe, / And with that suddein horror could no member moue.

Etymology 3

Inflected forms.

Verb

hove

1. (nautical) simple past tense and past participle of heave
2. (obsolete or dialectal) simple past tense and past participle of heave
   • 1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VIII:

     Pretty soon he gapped and stretched himself and hove off the blanket, and it was Miss Watson's Jim! I bet I was glad to see him.

Synonyms

• heaved

Middle Dutch

Noun

h?ve

1. inflection of hof:
   1. dative singular
   2. nominative/accusative/genitive plural

Middle English

Etymology

From Old English h?fe.

Noun

h?ve (uncountable)

1. ground-ivy

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²ho.??/

Etymology 1

Verb

hove

1. supine of hevja

Participle

hove

1. neuter of hoven

Adjective

hove

1. neuter of hoven

Etymology 2

Noun

hove n (definite singular hovet, indefinite plural hove, definite plural hova)

1. (dialectal) alternative form of hovud (“head”)

Old Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hove/

Noun

hove

1. dative singular of hof

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: h?p, IPA^(key): /h??p/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ho?p/
• Rhymes: -??p

Etymology 1

From Middle English hopen, from Old English hopian (“to expect, hope”), from Proto-West Germanic *hop?n, further etymology unclear.

Verb

hope (third-person singular simple present hopes, present participle hoping, simple past and past participle hoped)

1. (intransitive, transitive) To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
2. To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.
3. (intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.
   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Psalms cxix. 81

     I hope in thy word.

   • 1611, Bible (King James Version), Psalms xlii. 11

     Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God.

4. (transitive, dialectal, nonstandard) To wish.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs

Derived terms

• here's hoping
• hoped for

Translations

See also

• aspire
• desire
• expect
• look forward
• want

Etymology 2

From Middle English hope, from Old English hopa (“hope, expectation”), from the verb hope.

Noun

hope (countable and uncountable, plural hopes)

1. (countable or uncountable) The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.

2. (countable) The actual thing wished for.
3. (countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.

4. (Christianity, uncountable) The virtuous desire for future good.

   • But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Derived terms

Related terms

• forlorn hope

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English hope (“a valley”), from Old English h?p (found only in placenames). More at hoop.

Noun

hope (plural hopes)

1. (Northern England, Scotland) A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a comb.

Etymology 4

From Icelandic hóp (“a small bay or inlet”). Cognate with English hoop.

Noun

hope (plural hopes)

1. A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
2. (Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)

Anagrams

• pheo, pheo-

Dutch

Pronunciation

Verb

hope

1. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of hopen

Maori

Noun

hope

1. waist
2. hip (ringa hope)

Shona

Etymology

From the root of Common Bantu *d??kópè, whence also chikope (“eyelid”).

Noun

hópé 10

1. sleep

West Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ho?p?/

Noun

hope n (no plural)

1. Alternative form of hoop