hone – English noun declension

Noun: hone

Singular	hone
Plural	hones

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like hone

soldier's woundwort, Nicosian, whopper, greypate, tactile sign language, chronotrope, Rosie Lee, dissentient, photoinactivator, sulphonediimine, coastal waterfall, residuary devise, bituminization, nitrosonaphthol, smṛiti, geosphere, backscreen, mensuralist, flocculate, flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Middle English hon (“whetstone”), from Old English hān, from Proto-Germanic *hainō (compare Dutch heen, Norwegian hein), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₃i- (“to sharpen”) (compare Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone”), Persian سان (sân, “whetstone”)). See: Middle English Nouns 'hon', Dutch Nouns 'heen', Ancient Greek Nouns 'κῶνος'.

Verbs referencing "hone"

Swedish Nouns hen, Old Norse Nouns hein.