hound – English noun declension

English noun forms of hound

Noun: hound
Singularhound
Pluralhounds

Sample Sentences

  • On the way out of the building I was asked for my autograph. If I'd known who the signature hound thought I was, I would've signed appropriately. [1996, Marc Parent, Turning Stones, Harcourt Brace & Company, →ISBN, page 93:]
  • I still do not know if he's taken on this case because he's a glory hound, because he wants the PR, or if he simply wanted to help Anna. [2004, Jodi Picoult, My Sister's Keeper, Simon & Schuster,, →ISBN, page 483:]
  • "She had a good many successors, John."
  • "You are such a hound, in that respect, Goodson," said Claywell, "and you have always been such a hound, that it astounds me to find you—unaccompanied." [1915, Norman Duncan, "A Certain Recipient", in Harper's, volume 122, number 787, December 1915, republished in Harper's Monthly Magazine, volume 122, December 1915 to May 1916, page 108, "Are you alone, Goodson? […] I thought, perhaps, that the […] young woman, Goodson, who supplanted Mary?" […]]
  • Boy! false hound! [c. 1608–1609 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Coriolanus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene vi]:]
  • I turned away and left her to finish her journey in peace, feeling, but only for a moment or two, that I had been an unutterably mean hound. [1888, Rudyard Kipling, “The Phantom Rickshaw”, in The Phantom 'Rickshaw and Other Tales, Allahabad: A.H. Wheeler and Co., page 12:]
  • 'You blackmailing hound,' the parrot said distinctly, in what Hodges recognized as General Derby's voice. Anstruther turned pale. [1973, Elizabeth Walter, Come and Get Me and Other Uncanny Invitations:]

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓder.
3. Proto-Germanic *hundaz
4. Proto-West Germanic *hund
5. Old English hund
6. Middle English hound
7. English hound
8. From Middle English hound, from Old English hund, from Proto-West Germanic *hund, from Proto-Germanic *hundaz. Doublet of canine.
9. Cognate with Dutch hond (“dog”), German Hund (“dog”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish hund (“dog”), Faroese and Icelandic hundur (“dog”).
10. In 14th-century England, hound was the general word for all domestic canines, and dog referred to a subtype resembling the modern mastiff and bulldog (much as the distinction between Hund and Dogge in contemporary German). By the 16th century, dog had become the general word, and hound had begun to refer only to breeds used for hunting. See: Middle English Nouns 'hound', Old English Nouns 'hund', Dutch Nouns 'hond', German Nouns 'Hund'.

Verbs referencing "hound"

Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns hund, Swedish Nouns hund, Ancient Greek Nouns κύων, Dutch Nouns hond, German Nouns Hund, Latvian Nouns suns.