hone

== English == === Pronunciation === (General American) IPA(key): /hoʊn/ (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /həʊn/ Rhymes: -əʊn === Etymology 1 === From Middle English hon (“whetstone”), from Old English hān, from Proto-Germanic *hainō (compare Dutch heen, Norwegian hein), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱeh₃i- (“to sharpen”) (compare Ancient Greek κῶνος (kônos, “cone”), Persian سان (sân, “whetstone”)). ==== Noun ==== hone (plural hones) A sharpening stone composed of extra-fine grit used for removing the burr or curl from the blade of a razor or some other edge tool. A machine tool used in the manufacture of precision bores. ===== Derived terms ===== hone slate hone stone, honestone Turkey hone ===== Translations ===== ==== Verb ==== hone (third-person singular simple present hones, present participle honing, simple past and past participle honed) (transitive) To sharpen with a hone; to whet. (transitive) To use a hone to produce a precision bore. (transitive) To refine (a skill especially) by learning. To make more acute, intense, or effective. ===== Derived terms ===== ===== Translations ===== ==== See also ==== grit sandpaper steel strop swarf === Etymology 2 === Cognate with Icelandic hnúður. Distantly related to knot. ==== Noun ==== hone (plural hones) A kind of swelling in the cheek. ===== Derived terms ===== honewort === Etymology 3 === French hogner (“to grumble”), which could be a cross of honnir (“to disgrace, shame”) and grogner (“to grunt”). ==== Verb ==== hone (third-person singular simple present hones, present participle honing, simple past and past participle honed) (UK, US, Southern US, dialect, intransitive) To grumble. c. 1515–1516, published 1568, John Skelton, Againſt venemous tongues enpoyſoned with ſclaunder and falſe detractions &c.: Such tunges ſhuld be torne out by the harde rootes,Hoyning like hogges that groynis and wrotes. (UK, US, Southern US, dialect) To pine, lament, or long. === Etymology 4 === ==== Interjection ==== hone Synonym of alas Used to express sorrow, or grief 1836, Joanna Baillie, Witchcraft, Act 4, page 141 == Cimbrian == === Alternative forms === huunig (Sette Comuni) === Etymology === From Middle High German honec, honic, from Old High German honag, honeg, from Proto-West Germanic *hunag, from Proto-Germanic *hunagą. Cognate with German Honig, English honey. === Noun === hone m (Luserna) honey süaz azpi dar hone ― as sweet as honey === References === Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien == Japanese == === Romanization === hone Rōmaji transcription of ほね == Middle English == === Etymology 1 === From Old English hān, from Proto-West Germanic *hainu, from Proto-Germanic *hainō (“whetstone”). The final vowel is generalised from the Old English inflected forms. ==== Alternative forms ==== hayn, hoone ==== Pronunciation ==== IPA(key): /ˈhɔːn(ə)/ ==== Noun ==== hone hone (whetstone) ===== Descendants ===== English: hone → Scots: hone, whoon ==== References ==== “hōne, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007. === Etymology 2 === ==== Noun ==== hone alternative form of hon == Norwegian Bokmål == === Verb === hone (imperative hon, present tense honer, preterite and past participle hona or honet) (transitive) polish, hone == Yola == === Noun === hone alternative form of hoane === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 14