See hominy in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "pim",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Powhatan",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "First recorded in 1629. From Powhatan (\"Virginia Algonquian\"), though the exact source word is in question: suggestions include uskatahomen, appuminnéonash (“parched corn”), and rokohamin (“parched, ground corn”), the last yielding also the unclipped rockahominy.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "hominies",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-",
"2": "+"
},
"expansion": "hominy (usually uncountable, plural hominies)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Aymara translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with French translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Mopan Maya translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Navajo translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ojibwe translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Polish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Quechua translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Tagalog translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Unami translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Foods",
"orig": "en:Foods",
"parents": [
"Eating",
"Food and drink",
"Human behaviour",
"All topics",
"Human",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w"
},
{
"kind": "lifeform",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "Maize (food)",
"orig": "en:Maize (food)",
"parents": [
"Foods",
"Grains",
"Eating",
"Food and drink",
"Grasses",
"Human behaviour",
"All topics",
"Commelinids",
"Human",
"Fundamental",
"Plants",
"Lifeforms",
"Life",
"Nature"
],
"source": "w"
}
],
"derived": [
{
"word": "hominy snow"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1953, James Baldwin, “The Seventh Day”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN:",
"text": "Then his plate was put before him: hominy grits and a scrap of bacon. He wanted to cry, like a child: ‘But, Mama, it's my birthday!’",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A food made from hulled corn (maize) kernels soaked in lye water, rinsed, then cooked and eaten; or, the rinsed kernels are dried and coarsely ground into hominy grits."
],
"id": "en-hominy-en-noun-KQGKUUoO",
"links": [
[
"food",
"food"
],
[
"hulled",
"hulled"
],
[
"maize",
"maize"
],
[
"lye",
"lye"
],
[
"grits",
"grits"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "nixtamal"
}
],
"tags": [
"uncountable",
"usually"
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ay",
"lang": "Aymara",
"sense": "a food made from hulled maize",
"word": "mut'i"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kačamak",
"sense": "a food made from hulled maize",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "качамак"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a food made from hulled maize",
"word": "maïs lessivé"
},
{
"code": "mop",
"lang": "Mopan Maya",
"sense": "a food made from hulled maize",
"word": "k'u'um"
},
{
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "a food made from hulled maize",
"word": "bił haʼnigáhí"
},
{
"code": "oj",
"lang": "Ojibwe",
"sense": "a food made from hulled maize",
"word": "gijikonayezigan"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a food made from hulled maize",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mamałyga"
},
{
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "a food made from hulled maize",
"word": "mut'i"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a food made from hulled maize",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nixtamal"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "a food made from hulled maize",
"word": "lagkitan"
},
{
"code": "unm",
"lang": "Unami",
"sense": "a food made from hulled maize",
"word": "pxiskteyo"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈhɒmɪni/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hominy.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/73/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hominy.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hominy.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/73/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hominy.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hominy.wav.ogg"
},
{
"homophone": "harmony (non-rhotic, father-bother merger, weak vowel merger)"
}
],
"word": "hominy"
}
{
"derived": [
{
"word": "hominy snow"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "pim",
"3": "-"
},
"expansion": "Powhatan",
"name": "der"
}
],
"etymology_text": "First recorded in 1629. From Powhatan (\"Virginia Algonquian\"), though the exact source word is in question: suggestions include uskatahomen, appuminnéonash (“parched corn”), and rokohamin (“parched, ground corn”), the last yielding also the unclipped rockahominy.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "hominies",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-",
"2": "+"
},
"expansion": "hominy (usually uncountable, plural hominies)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Algonquian languages",
"English terms derived from Powhatan",
"English terms with homophones",
"English terms with quotations",
"English uncountable nouns",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Terms with Aymara translations",
"Terms with Bulgarian translations",
"Terms with French translations",
"Terms with Mopan Maya translations",
"Terms with Navajo translations",
"Terms with Ojibwe translations",
"Terms with Polish translations",
"Terms with Quechua translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Tagalog translations",
"Terms with Unami translations",
"en:Foods",
"en:Maize (food)"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1953, James Baldwin, “The Seventh Day”, in Go Tell It on the Mountain (Penguin Classics), London: Penguin Books, published 2001, →ISBN:",
"text": "Then his plate was put before him: hominy grits and a scrap of bacon. He wanted to cry, like a child: ‘But, Mama, it's my birthday!’",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A food made from hulled corn (maize) kernels soaked in lye water, rinsed, then cooked and eaten; or, the rinsed kernels are dried and coarsely ground into hominy grits."
],
"links": [
[
"food",
"food"
],
[
"hulled",
"hulled"
],
[
"maize",
"maize"
],
[
"lye",
"lye"
],
[
"grits",
"grits"
]
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "nixtamal"
}
],
"tags": [
"uncountable",
"usually"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈhɒmɪni/"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-hominy.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/73/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hominy.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hominy.wav.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/7/73/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hominy.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-hominy.wav.ogg"
},
{
"homophone": "harmony (non-rhotic, father-bother merger, weak vowel merger)"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "ay",
"lang": "Aymara",
"sense": "a food made from hulled maize",
"word": "mut'i"
},
{
"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "kačamak",
"sense": "a food made from hulled maize",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "качамак"
},
{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "a food made from hulled maize",
"word": "maïs lessivé"
},
{
"code": "mop",
"lang": "Mopan Maya",
"sense": "a food made from hulled maize",
"word": "k'u'um"
},
{
"code": "nv",
"lang": "Navajo",
"sense": "a food made from hulled maize",
"word": "bił haʼnigáhí"
},
{
"code": "oj",
"lang": "Ojibwe",
"sense": "a food made from hulled maize",
"word": "gijikonayezigan"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "a food made from hulled maize",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "mamałyga"
},
{
"code": "qu",
"lang": "Quechua",
"sense": "a food made from hulled maize",
"word": "mut'i"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a food made from hulled maize",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "nixtamal"
},
{
"code": "tl",
"lang": "Tagalog",
"sense": "a food made from hulled maize",
"word": "lagkitan"
},
{
"code": "unm",
"lang": "Unami",
"sense": "a food made from hulled maize",
"word": "pxiskteyo"
}
],
"word": "hominy"
}
Download raw JSONL data for hominy meaning in English (3.8kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-12-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-12-04 using wiktextract (d8cb2f3 and 4e554ae). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.