horse – English noun declension

English noun forms of horse

Noun: horse
Singularhorse
Pluralhorses

Sample Sentences

  • A cowboy's greatest friend is his horse.
  • She loved taming horses on Saturday.
  • A grain, which in England is generally given to horſes, but which in Scotland ſupports the people. [1755 April 15, Samuel Johnson, “Oats”, in A Dictionary of the English Language: […], volume II (L–Z), London: […] J[ohn] and P[aul] Knapton; […], →OCLC, column 1:]
  • Athelstan Arundel walked home[…], foaming and raging. […] He walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them. [1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:]
  • The departure was not unduly prolonged.[…]Within the door Mrs. Spoker hastily imparted to Mrs. Love a few final sentiments on the subject of Divine Intention in the disposition of buckets; farewells and last commiserations; a deep, guttural instigation to the horse; and the wheels of the waggonette crunched heavily away into obscurity. [1921, Ben Travers, chapter 5, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:]
  • These bone features, distinctive in the zebra, are actually present in all horses.
  • ‘That’s not a mare; that’s a b--- horse!’ [1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 16:]
  • We should place two units of horse and one of foot on this side of the field.
  • Now just remind me how the horse moves again?
  • Every linebacker they have is a real horse.
  • She's scored very highly with the parallel bars; let's see how she does with the horse.
  • a clothes horse; a sawhorse
  • The old “horse” has made way for the “foot-rope", though we still retain the term “Flemish horse" for the short foot-rope at the top-sail yard-arms [1887, William Clark Russell, A Book for the Hammock:]
  • But in all the wild tumult he noticed, and never forgot, the wicked, set little eye—something like a circus elephant's eye—of a whale that drove along almost level with the water, and, so he said, winked at him. Three boats found their rodings fouled by these reckless mid-sea hunters, and were towed half a mile ere their horses shook the line free. [1897, Rudyard Kipling, Captains Courageous:]
  • She said: "I'm starved. I could eat a horse." I told her she was lying, because I had once eaten horse. [1946, George Johnston, Skyscrapers in the Mist, page 46:]
  • This "horse" (a slang term for prison officers who smuggle contraband into the institution) was probably able "to stay in business" for such a long time because he only "packed" for powerful, trustworthy prisoners […] [1980, Lee Harrington Bowker, Prison Victimization, page 117:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ḱers-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-ós
4. Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós?
5. Proto-Indo-European *h₁wers-?
6. Proto-Indo-European *wers-
7. Proto-Indo-European *-ḗn
8. Proto-Indo-European *wérsēn
9. Proto-Indo-Iranian *(w)ŕ̥šā
10. Proto-Iranian *(w)ŕ̥šāder.?
11. Proto-Germanic *hrussą
12. Proto-West Germanic *hross
13. Old English hors
14. Middle English hors
15. English horse
16. From Middle English hors, horse, ors, from Old English hors (“horse”), from Proto-West Germanic *hors, *hross, from Proto-Germanic *hrussą (“horse”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥sós (“vehicle”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run”). Doublet of car and carrus.
17. Cognates
18. Cognate with Scots horse (“horse”), West Frisian hoars (“horse”), Cimbrian ross (“horse”), Dutch hors, ros (“horse”), German Ross, Roß (“horse”), Danish and Norwegian Nynorsk hors (“horse, mare”), Faroese hors, ross (“horse”), Icelandic hross (“horse”), Swedish russ (“horse”); also Cornish karr (“car”), Welsh car (“car; cart, wagon”), Latin currus (“car, chariot; wagon, wain”), Ancient Greek ἐπίκουρος (epíkouros, “aiding, assisting; defending; ally, helper; hireling”), Tocharian A kursär (“vehicle; mile”), Tocharian B kwarsär (“course; path”). See: Middle English Nouns 'hors', Old English Nouns 'hors', Dutch Nouns 'hors', German Nouns 'Ross', Faroese Nouns 'hors', Icelandic Nouns 'hross', Swedish Nouns 'russ', Latin Nouns 'currus'.

Verbs referencing "horse"

Danish Nouns hors, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns hors, Italian Nouns curro, Old Norse Nouns hross, Spanish Nouns carro.