Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to honey
Participle: honeyed
Gerund: honeying
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | honey |
| you | honey |
| he;she;it | honeys |
| we | honey |
| you | honey |
| they | honey |
Perfect
| I | have honeyed |
| you | have honeyed |
| he;she;it | has honeyed |
| we | have honeyed |
| you | have honeyed |
| they | have honeyed |
Past
| I | honeyed |
| you | honeyed |
| he;she;it | honeyed |
| we | honeyed |
| you | honeyed |
| they | honeyed |
Pluperfect
| I | had honeyed |
| you | had honeyed |
| he;she;it | had honeyed |
| we | had honeyed |
| you | had honeyed |
| they | had honeyed |
Future
| I | will honey |
| you | will honey |
| he;she;it | will honey |
| we | will honey |
| you | will honey |
| they | will honey |
Future Perfect
| I | will have honeyed |
| you | will have honeyed |
| he;she;it | will have honeyed |
| we | will have honeyed |
| you | will have honeyed |
| they | will have honeyed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | honey |
| you | honey |
| he;she;it | honey |
| we | honey |
| you | honey |
| they | honey |
Perfect
| I | have honeyed |
| you | have honeyed |
| he;she;it | have honeyed |
| we | have honeyed |
| you | have honeyed |
| they | have honeyed |
Imperfect
| I | honeyed |
| you | honeyed |
| he;she;it | honeyed |
| we | honeyed |
| you | honeyed |
| they | honeyed |
Pluperfect
| I | had honeyed |
| you | had honeyed |
| he;she;it | had honeyed |
| we | had honeyed |
| you | had honeyed |
| they | had honeyed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would honey |
| you | would honey |
| he;she;it | would honey |
| we | would honey |
| you | would honey |
| they | would honey |
Perfect
| I | would have honeyed |
| you | would have honeyed |
| he;she;it | would have honeyed |
| we | would have honeyed |
| you | would have honeyed |
| they | would have honeyed |
Imperative
| you | honey |
| we | Let's honey |
| you | honey |
Verbs conjugated like 'honey'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'honey'
hone,
money,
behoney,
bogey,
bone,
cone,
convey,
cooey,
covey,
enhoney,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. From Middle English hony, honi, from Old English huniġ, from Proto-West Germanic *hunag, from Proto-Germanic *hunagą (compare Saterland Frisian Hunich, West Frisian hunich, German Low German Honnig, German Honig), from earlier *hunangą (compare North Frisian honning, hönning, West Frisian huning, Dutch honing, Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk honning, Swedish honung, Faroese hunangur, Icelandic hunang), from Proto-Indo-European *kn̥h₂onk-o-s, from *kn̥h₂ónks.
2. Cognate with Middle Welsh canecon (“gold”), Latin canicae pl (“bran”), Tocharian B kronkśe (“bee”), Albanian qengjë (“beehive”), Ancient Greek κνῆκος (knêkos, “safflower”), Northern Kurdish şan (“beehive”), Northern Luri گونج (gonj, “bee”), Finnish hunaja.
Sample Sentences
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Honeying and making love. [c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iv]:]
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[O]ne / Discuss'd his tutor, rough to common men / But honeying at the whisper of a lord; / And one the Master, as a rogue in grain / Veneer'd with sanctimonious theory. [1847, Alfred Tennyson, “Prologue”, in The Princess: A Medley, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 6:]