Noun: hoof
| Singular | hoof |
| Plural | hooves; hoofs |
Sample Sentences
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[…] I ſee
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Th’ Inſulting Tyrant prancing o’er the Field
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Strow’d with Rome’s Citizens, and drench’d in Slaughter,
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His Horſe’s Hoofs wet with Patrician Blood. [1712 (date written), [Joseph] Addison, Cato, a Tragedy. […], London: […] J[acob] Tonson, […], published 1713, →OCLC, Act I, scene i, page 2:]
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Get your hooves off me!
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He is a huge man, six feet four on bare hoofs and composed of two hundred and seventy pounds of solid bone and muscle. [1929, Robert Dean Frisbee, The Book of Puka-Puka, Eland, published 2019, page 110:]
Nouns inflected like hoof
Mobius scarf,
Moebius scarf,
head-scarf,
Palestinian scarf,
head scarf,
presheaf,
moebius scarf,
government wharf,
doorleaf,
bloodleaf,
capsheaf,
mobius scarf,
theif,
theef,
wharf,
scarf,
shelf,
sheaf,
headscarf,
cloven hoof, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ḱoph₂ós
3. Proto-Germanic *hōfaz
4. Proto-West Germanic *hōf
5. Old English hōf
6. Middle English hof
7. English hoof
8. Inherited from Middle English hof, houf, houve, hove, from Old English hōf, from Proto-Germanic *hōfaz (compare West Frisian hoef, Dutch hoef, German Huf, Danish hov, Norwegian hov, Swedish hov), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱoph₂ós (compare Sanskrit शफ (śaphá, “hoof, claw”), Avestan 𐬯𐬀𐬟𐬀 (safa, “hoof”), possibly Czech, Polish kopyto). See: Middle English Nouns '
hof,houf,houve,hove', Middle English Nouns '
hof,houf,houve,hove', Dutch Nouns '
hoef', German Nouns '
Huf', Danish Nouns '
hov', Swedish Nouns '
hov', Polish Nouns '
kopyto'.
Verbs referencing "hoof"
Danish Nouns
hov, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
hov, Swedish Nouns
hov, German Nouns
Huf, Dutch Nouns
hoef, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
hóv.