Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗To greedily take more than one's share, to take precedence at the expense of another or others. · To clip the mane of a horse, making it short and bristly. · (of a hedge) to trim up closely · To scrub with a hog, or scrubbing broom.
From Middle English hog, from Old English hogg, hocg (“hog”), possibly from Old Norse hǫggva (“to strike, chop, cut”), from Proto-Germanic *hawwaną (“to hew, forge”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewh₂- (“to beat, hew, forge”). Cognate with Old High German houwan, Old Saxon hauwan, Old English hēawan (English hew). Hog originally meant a castrated male pig, hence a sense of “the cut one”. (Compare hogget for a castrated male sheep.) More at hew. Alternatively from a Brythonic language, from Proto-Celtic *sukkos, from Proto-Indo-European *suH- and thus cognate with Welsh hwch (“sow”) and Cornish hogh (“pig”).
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- Root classification mention*kewh₂-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionhogenm
- Inherited-form mentionhoggang
- Derivation mentionhǫggvanon · to strike, chop, cut
- Derivation mention*hawwanągem-pro · to hew, forge
- Derivation mention*kewh₂-ine-pro · to beat, hew, forge
- Cognate mentionhouwangoh
- Cognate mentionhauwanosx
- Cognate mentionhēawanang
- Derivation mention*sukkoscel-pro
- Derivation mention*suH-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionhwchcy
- Cognate mentionhoghkw
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