hove
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /həʊv/
- Rhymes: -əʊv
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 *hufōną (“to house, lodge”), from Proto-Germanic *hufą (“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)
- (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 […].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.7:
- (obsolete, intransitive) To wait, linger.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter x, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII:
- Alle these xv knyghtes were knyghtes of the table round / Soo these with moo other came in to gyders / and bete on bak the kynge of Northumberland and the kynge of Northwalys / whan sir launcelot sawe this as he houed in a lytil leued woode / thenne he sayd vnto syre lauayn / see yonder is a company of good knyghtes
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter x, in Le Morte Darthur, book XVIII:
- (obsolete, intransitive) To move on or by.
- (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To remain; delay.
- (intransitive, now chiefly dialectal) To remain stationary (usually on horseback).
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)
Etymology 3
Inflected forms.
Verb
hove
- (nautical) simple past tense and past participle of heave
- (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.
- 1884, Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Chapter VIII: