hove

Meaning

Verb

• To remain suspended in air, water etc.; to float, to hover.
• To wait, linger.
• To move on or by.
• To remain; delay.
• To remain stationary (usually on horseback).
• To raise; lift; hold up.
• To rise.
• Past of heave
• Past of heave

Related

Similar words

• heaved

Origin

• From Middle English hoven ("to linger, wait, hover, move aside, entertain, cherish, foster"), from Old English *hofian ("to receive into one's house"), from Proto-Germanic *hufōną ("to house, lodge"), from Proto-Germanic *hufą ("hill, height, farm, dwelling"), from Proto-Indo-European *keup- ("to arch, bend, buckle"). Cognate with Old Frisian hovia ("to receive into one's home, entertain"), Old Dutch hoven ("to receive into one's home, entertain"). Related to Old English hof ("court, house, dwelling"). More at hovel.
• From Middle English hoven, alteration (due to hove, hoven, past tense and past participle of heven). More at heave.
• Inflected forms.