honey – English noun declension

English noun forms of honey

Noun: honey
Singularhoney
Pluralhoneys

Sample Sentences

  • The honey in the pot should last for years.
  • The physical properties of the different honeys, color, granulation, aroma, flavor, etc., are indicated in the table only in a very general way. [1908, United States. Bureau of Chemistry, Bulletin, numbers 110-114:]
  • If two of the California honeys, western hyssop and fleabane, having a positive polarization at 200 C. are disregarded, then the remaining... [1949, Roy A. Grout, editor, The Hive and the Honey Bee:]
  • Eucalyptus honeys could be characterized based on seven volatile compounds, whereas lavender honeys had only five... [2011, Stephen Taylor, Advances in Food and Nutrition Research, volume 62:]
  • O my love, my wife! / Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath / Hath had no power yet upon thy beauty. [c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene iii], lines 91–93:]
  • the honey of his language [1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:]
  • Honey, would you take out the trash?
  • Honey, I'm home.
  • "So far, so good... are you doing okay?" "Flying... is awesome!" "Focus, honey." [2013 July 30, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive (webcomic), Comic for Tuesday, Jul 30, 2013:]
  • Man, there are some fine honeys here tonight!
  • It's hard on a fella, when he don't know his way around
  • If I don't find me a honey to help me spend my money
  • I'm gonna have to blow this town. [1963, Sam Cooke, “Another Saturday Night”, in Ain't That Good News:]
  • College was wild. I was like a happy little white kid playing in a sandbox full of toys. Honeys, basketball, music, I indulged in all of that shit to the max. And oh yeah. I went to a couple of classes too. I wasn't totally ass-out stupid. [2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 130:]

Nouns inflected like honey

chimney, honey, attorney, donkey, galley, monkey, turkey, pulley, valley, storey,

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. See: Middle English Nouns 'hony', German Nouns 'Honig', Dutch Nouns 'honing', Swedish Nouns 'honung', Faroese Nouns 'hunangur', Icelandic Nouns 'hunang', Latin Nouns 'canicae', Ancient Greek Nouns 'κνῆκος', Finnish Nouns 'hunaja'.

Verbs referencing "honey"

Dutch Nouns honing, German Nouns Honig, Latin Nouns canicae, Ancient Greek Nouns κνῆκος, Finnish Nouns hanipöö.