different between hove vs hoven

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

Etymology 1

From Middle English hoven, from Old English hafen, ?ehafen, from Proto-Germanic *habanaz, past participle of Proto-Germanic *habjan? (“to lift, heave”). Compare German Low German hoven (“hoven”, past participle), German gehoben (“hoven”, past participle). More at heave.

Alternative forms

• hove, heaved

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?ho?v?n/
• Rhymes: -o?v?n

Verb

hoven

1. alternative past participle of heave

Etymology 2

From hoove +? -en.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hu?v?n/
• Rhymes: -u?v?n

Adjective

hoven (not comparable)

1. Affected with the disease called hoove.

   hoven cattle

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??ov?n]

Noun

hoven

1. genitive plural of hovno

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -o?v?n

Noun

hoven

1. Plural form of hof

German Low German

Verb

hoven

1. past participle of heven

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

hoven m

1. definite singular of hov

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Past participle of hevja, hevje.

Adjective

hoven (masculine and feminine hoven, neuter hove or hovent, definite singular and plural hovne, comparative hovnare, indefinite superlative hovnast, definite superlative hovnaste)

1. past participle of hevja and hevje
2. swollen
3. overproud

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Noun

hoven m

1. definite singular of hov

References

• “hoven” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Swedish

Noun

hoven

1. definite singular of hov
2. definite plural of hov