hón

See also: Appendix:Variations of "hon"

Hungarian

Etymology

From Proto-Uralic *kone. Cognates include Northern Mansi ханул (hanul), Finnish kainalo and Estonian kaenal.^[1][2]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhoːn]
• Rhymes: -oːn

Noun

hón (usually uncountable, plural hónok)

1. (with a possessive suffix): armpit, underarm, (under) someone’s arm

   a hónom alatt ― under my arm

Declension

Possessive forms of hón

possessor	single possession	multiple possessions
1st person sing.	hónom	hónaim
2nd person sing.	hónod	hónaid
3rd person sing.	hóna	hónai
1st person plural	hónunk	hónaink
2nd person plural	hónotok	hónaitok
3rd person plural	hónuk	hónaik

Derived terms

(Compound words):

• hónalj

References

1. Entry #348 in Uralonet, online Uralic etymological database of the Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics.
2. hón in Zaicz, Gábor (ed.). Etimológiai szótár: Magyar szavak és toldalékok eredete (‘Dictionary of Etymology: The origin of Hungarian words and affixes’). Budapest: Tinta Könyvkiadó, 2006, →ISBN.  (See also its 2nd edition.)

Further reading

• hón in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh. A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (“The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language”, abbr.: ÉrtSz.). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN

Icelandic

Alternative forms

• hon (archaic)
• hún

Etymology

From Old Norse hón.

Pronoun

hón (personal pronoun)

1. (archaic) she

   Var hón kvenna fríðust.

   And she was the fairest of all women.

Declension

  Icelandic personal pronouns

Icelandic personal pronouns
singular	first person	second person	third person masculine	third person feminine	third person neuter
nominative	ég, eg, ek†	þú	hann	hún, hon†, hón†	það, þat†
accusative	mig, mik†	þig, þik†	hann	hana	það, þat†
dative	mér	þér	honum, hánum†	henni	því
genitive	mín	þín	hans	hennar	þess
plural	first person	second person	third person masculine	third person feminine	third person neuter
nominative	við	þið, þit†	þeir	þær	þau
accusative	okkur	ykkur	þá	þær	þau
dative	okkur	ykkur	þeim	þeim	þeim
genitive	okkar	ykkar	þeirra	þeirra	þeirra

Old Norse

Etymology

From older hǫ́n, from Proto-Norse *ᚺᚨᚾᚢ (*hanu /⁠*hānu⁠/), from a prefixed form of Proto-Germanic *ainaz (“one”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• (9th century West Norse) IPA^(key): /hɒ̃ːn/

Pronoun

hón

1. she (third-person nominative singular feminine personal pronoun)

Declension

number	first person	second person	reflexive	third person
case	singular			singular masculine	singular feminine	singular neuter
nominative	ek	þú		hann	hon, hón, hǫ́n	þat
accusative	mik	þik	sik	hann	hana, hána	þat
dative	mér	þér	sér	hánum, hónum, hǫ́num	henni	því
genitive	mín	þín	sín	hans	hennar	þess
case	dual
nominative	vit	it, þit
accusative	okkr	ykkr	sik
dative	okkr	ykkr	sér
genitive	okkar	ykkar	sín
case	plural			plural masculine	plural feminine	plural neuter
nominative	vér	ér, þér		þeir	þær	þau
accusative	oss	yðr	sik	þá	þær	þau
dative	oss	yðr	sér	þeim	þeim	þeim
genitive	vár	yðar, yðvar	sín	þeira, þeirra	þeira, þeirra	þeira, þeirra

Old Norse personal pronouns

Descendants

• Icelandic: hún
• Faroese: hon
• Norwegian Nynorsk: ho; (dialectal) hon, hõ, hu
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: ho (obsolete)
• Elfdalian: ą̊
• Old Swedish: hōn
  • Swedish: hon
• Danish: hun
  • Norwegian Bokmål: hun
• Old Gutnish: han

References

1. Lander, E. T. (2020). The History of the Reinforced Demonstrative in Nordic: Regional Variation and Reconstruction. Netherlands: Brill, p. 10