# hoh
## English
### Interjection

hoh
* Alternative form of ho
** 1900, Margaret Sidney, The Adventures of Joel Pepper:"Hoh, hoh!" cried Ab'm, pointing a big fat finger at her, that might have been cleaner; "hear her now. An' she said her shoes warn't never goin' to wear out. Hoh, hoh!"

## Alemannic German
### Alternative forms

* haa, ha, heen, hä, häbä, hè

### Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German hāben, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną.
Compare German haben, Dutch hebben, West Frisian hawwe, English have, Icelandic hafa.

### Verb

hoh
* (Carcoforo) to have

### References

* Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

## Jakaltek
### Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *jooj.

### Noun

hoh
* crow

### References

* Church, Clarence, Church, Katherine (1955) Vocabulario castellano-jacalteco, jacalteco-castellano‎ (in Spanish), Guatemala C. A.: Instituto Lingüístico de Verano, page 17; 21

## Old Dutch
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hauh, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz.

### Adjective

hōh
* high

#### Descendants

* Middle Dutch: hôoch, hô
** Dutch: hoog, hooge (archaic)
*** Afrikaans: hoog
*** Berbice Creole Dutch: hogo
*** Jersey Dutch: hôx
*** Negerhollands: hoog, hok
*** Skepi Creole Dutch: hug, oag

#### Further reading

* “hō I, hōg”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

## Old English
### Etymology 1

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *hą̄h, from Proto-Germanic *hanhaz.

#### Alternative forms

* hō, hōg

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xoːx/, [hoːx]

#### Noun

hōh m
* The heel (rear of a foot)
    Synonym: hēla

##### Declension

Strong a-stem:

##### Derived terms

* hōhsċanca

##### Related terms

* hēla
* hōhsinu

##### Descendants

* Middle English: hough, ho, hoche, hogh, hoȝ, hokke, hoo, houȝ, houe, howe, howghe, howh
** English: hough, hoff, hock
** Scots: hoch, houch
** ⇒ Yola: houghany

### Etymology 2

Related to hōn (“to hang”).

#### Pronunciation

* IPA: /xoːx/, [hoːx]

#### Noun

hōh m
* promontory, cliff

##### Declension

Strong a-stem:

##### Descendants

* Middle English: hough, ho, hogh, hoghe, how
** English: heugh; hoe, hogh, hough, how
** Scots: heuch

### References

* Angus Cameron, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey, editors (2018), “hōh”, in Dictionary of Old English: A to Le ⁠, Toronto: University of Toronto, →OCLC.

## Old High German
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hauh, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz (compare Old Dutch hōh, Old English hēah, Old Dutch hōh, Old Norse hár), from Proto-Indo-European *kewk-, a suffixed form of *kew-. The Indo-European root is also the source of Sanskrit कुच (kuca, “female breast”), Lithuanian kaukas, Russian куча (kuča).
For more Germanic cognates, see Proto-Germanic *hauhaz.

### Adjective

hōh
* high

#### Derived terms

* hōhī

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: hōch, hō
** Alemannic German: hooch
    Walser: hoch, hòch
    Swabian: hauch
** Bavarian:
    Cimbrian: hoach, hòach (Sette Comuni)
    Mòcheno: heach
    Northern Bavarian: [hɔːu̯ɣ̊], (comparative) [ˈhɛi̯xɐ], (superlative) [ˈhɛi̯kst]
** Central Franconian: huh, hiech, hieh (western Moselle Franconian)
    Hunsrik: hogh
    Luxembourgish: héich, héi
** German: hoch
** Rhine Franconian: houch, hauch, hoch, hok, houk, huch, huk
    Frankfurterisch: [hoːx], (comparative) [heːʒ̥æ̆], (superlative) [he(ː)kst]
    Pennsylvania German: hooch
** Vilamovian: huch
** Yiddish: הויך (hoykh)

## Old Saxon
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hauh, from Proto-Germanic *hauhaz (compare Old High German hōh, Old English hēah, Old Dutch hōh, Old Norse hár), from Proto-Indo-European *kewk-, a suffixed form of *kew-. The Indo-European root is also the source of Sanskrit कुच (kuca, “female breast”), Lithuanian kaukas, Russian куча (kuča).
For more Germanic cognates: see Proto-Germanic *hauhaz.

### Adjective

hōh
* high

#### Descendants

* Middle Low German: hôch, hô
** German Low German: hooch, hoog
** Plautdietsch: hüag, huag

#### References

* Köbler, Gerhard, Altsächsisches Wörterbuch (5th edition 2014)

## Yurok
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /hɔh/

### Verb

hoh
* uninflected form of hohkuemek'