"hos" meaning in Middle English

See hos in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /hɔːs/, /hɔːrs/, /hɑːs/ [Northern], /hɑːrs/ [Northern]
Etymology: From Old English hās, *hārs, from Proto-Germanic *haisaz, *haisraz. Etymology templates: {{inh|enm|ang|hās}} Old English hās, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*haisaz}} Proto-Germanic *haisaz Head templates: {{head|enm|adjective|plural and weak singular|hose||{{{2}}}||{{{3}}}|head=}} hos (plural and weak singular hose), {{enm-adj|hose}} hos (plural and weak singular hose) Forms: hose [plural], hose [singular, weak], hose [alternative], hoos [alternative], hoose [alternative], hoce [alternative], hase [alternative], haase [alternative], hayse [alternative], hors [alternative], horse [alternative], hoorse [alternative]
  1. Hoarse; harsh-sounding.
    Sense id: en-hos-enm-adj-NiOA2iaP Categories (other): Talking Disambiguation of Talking: 42 31 19 8
  2. (rare) Unclear-sounding; hard to detect. Tags: rare
    Sense id: en-hos-enm-adj-HsvpdQsj Categories (other): Sound Disambiguation of Sound: 39 61 0 0
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: hosely, hosnesse
Etymology number: 1

Noun

IPA: /hɔːs/, /hɔːrs/, /hɑːs/ [Northern], /hɑːrs/ [Northern]
Etymology: From Old English hās, *hārs, from Proto-Germanic *haisaz, *haisraz. Etymology templates: {{inh|enm|ang|hās}} Old English hās, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*haisaz}} Proto-Germanic *haisaz Head templates: {{head|enm|nouns|g=|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} hos, {{enm-noun|-}} hos (uncountable) Forms: hose [alternative], hoos [alternative], hoose [alternative], hoce [alternative], hase [alternative], haase [alternative], hayse [alternative], hors [alternative], horse [alternative], hoorse [alternative]
  1. (rare) The state of being hoarse or an example of it. Tags: rare, uncountable
    Sense id: en-hos-enm-noun-krABj1Bw Categories (other): Pages with 15 entries, Pages with entries, Middle English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 15 entries: 10 8 21 21 3 3 2 11 4 2 3 3 2 3 0 1 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 12 10 23 23 2 2 1 13 6 1 1 1 1 1 0 1 1 Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 14 10 52 24
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Pronoun

Head templates: {{head|enm|pronoun|altform=1}} hos
  1. (Late Middle English, rare) Alternative form of whos (“whose”, genitive) Tags: Late-Middle-English, alt-of, alternative, rare Alternative form of: whos (extra: “whose”, genitive)
    Sense id: en-hos-enm-pron-MAvq2NAj Categories (other): Late Middle English
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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        "(rare) Unclear-sounding; hard to detect."
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        "(rare) The state of being hoarse or an example of it."
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      "tags": [
        "Northern"
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      "ipa": "/hɑːrs/",
      "tags": [
        "Northern"
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-06-13 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-06-01 using wiktextract (9c82c1c and f1c2b61). 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.