different between hove vs hovel
hove
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)
- (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 […].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.7:
- (obsolete, intransitive) To wait, linger.
- (obsolete, intransitive) To move on or by.
- (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To remain; delay.
- (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)
- (transitive, now chiefly dialectal) To raise; lift; hold up.
- (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.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.ii:
Etymology 3
Inflected forms.
Verb
hove
- (nautical) simple past tense and past participle of heave
- (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.
- 1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VIII:
Synonyms
- heaved
Middle Dutch
Noun
h?ve
- inflection of hof:
- dative singular
- nominative/accusative/genitive plural
Middle English
Etymology
From Old English h?fe.
Noun
h?ve (uncountable)
- ground-ivy
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /²ho.??/
Etymology 1
Verb
hove
- supine of hevja
Participle
hove
- neuter of hoven
Adjective
hove
- neuter of hoven
Etymology 2
Noun
hove n (definite singular hovet, indefinite plural hove, definite plural hova)
- (dialectal) alternative form of hovud (“head”)
Old Frisian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?hove/
Noun
hove
- dative singular of hof
References
- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN
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hovel
English
Etymology
From Middle English hovel, hovil, hovylle, diminutive of Old English hof (“an enclosure, court, dwelling, house”), from Proto-Germanic *huf? (“hill, farm”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“arch, bend, buckle”), equivalent to howf +? -el. Cognate with Dutch hof (“garden, court”), German Hof (“yard, garden, court, palace”), Icelandic hof (“temple, hall”). Related to hove and hover.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?h?v?l/, /?h?v?l/
- Rhymes: -?v?l
- Rhymes: -?v?l
Noun
hovel (plural hovels)
- An open shed for sheltering cattle, or protecting produce, etc., from the weather.
- A poor cottage; a small, mean house; a hut.
- In the manufacture of porcelain, a large, conical brick structure around which the firing kilns are grouped.
Translations
Verb
hovel (third-person singular simple present hovels, present participle hovelling or hoveling, simple past and past participle hovelled or hoveled)
- (transitive) To put in a hovel; to shelter.
- The poor are hovell'd and hustled together.
- (transitive) To construct a chimney so as to prevent smoking, by making two of the more exposed walls higher than the others, or making an opening on one side near the top.
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