Noun: haw
Sample Sentences
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The kanary-nut may be considered equal to a hazel-nut, but I have met with nothing else superior to our crabs, our haws, beech-nuts, wild plums, and acorns; fruits which would be highly esteemed by the natives of these islands, and would form an important part of their sustenance. [1869, Alfred Russel Wallace, The Malay Archipelago, volume II, London: Macmillan and Co., page 103:]
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wele not leaue a man of lawe,
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Nor a paper worth a hawe,
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And make him worſe than a dawe,
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That ſhall ſtand againſt Iacke Strawe. [1593, anonymous author, The Life and Death of Iacke Straw […], →OCLC, Act II:]
Nouns inflected like haw
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 hawe, from Old English haga (“enclosure, hedge”), from Proto-Germanic *hagô (compare West Frisian haach, Dutch haag, German Hag (“hedged farmland”), Norwegian Bokmål hage (“garden”)), from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰom (compare Welsh cae (“field”), Latin caulae (“sheepfold, enclosure”), cohum (“strap between plowbeam and yoke”), Russian кош (koš, “tent”), коша́ра (košára, “sheepfold”), Sanskrit कक्ष (kakṣa, “curtain wall”)), from *kagʰ- 'to catch, grasp' (compare Welsh cau (“to clasp”), Oscan kahad (“may he seize”). See: Middle English Nouns '
hawe', Old English Nouns '
haga', Dutch Nouns '
haag', German Nouns '
Hag', Norwegian Bokmål Nouns '
hage', Latin Nouns '
caulae', Russian Nouns '
кош'.
Verbs referencing "haw"
Danish Nouns
have, Dutch Nouns
haag.