homes

See also: Homes

English

Pronunciation

Noun

homes

  1. plural of home

Noun

homes

  1. (slang) Alternative spelling of holmes
    • 2007, Robert Crais, The Two Minute Rule:
      Ghee said, "Yo, homes. This is my youngest baby, Marisol. Sweetie, say hi to Mr. Holman." Marisol told Holman it was a pleasure to meet him.
    • 2008, Matthew Ray, Ethan Brown's Twisted Reality:
      I said what's up Homes? What you doing over this side of the hood?

Verb

homes

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of home

Anagrams

Catalan

Pronunciation

Noun

homes

  1. plural of home

Galician

Noun

homes m pl

  1. plural of home

Middle English

Noun

homes

  1. plural of hom

Narragansett

Etymology

Unclear. Possibly either:

Noun

hômes anim (plural hômesuck)

  1. old man
    Synonym: kichize

Declension
Declension of homes (animate, 2 forms attested)
singular plural locative
unpossessed hômeshômesuck*homes-ick (-uck, -eck, -eg, -it, -ut)
possessed forms
first-person (my) *n'homes*n'homes-uck*n'homes-ick (-uck, -eck, -eg, -it, -ut)
second-person (your) *k'homes*k'homes-uck*k'homes-ick (-uck, -eck, -eg, -it, -ut)
third-person (his, her) *w'homes*w'homes-uck*w'homes-ick (-uck, -eck, -eg, -it, -ut)

References
  1. Monica Macaulay, Margaret Noodin, J. Randolph Valentine (2016 May 1) Papers of the Forty-Fourth Algonquian Conference: Actes du Congrès des Algonquinistes, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 111: “EMah /nə̆maxōm/ 'my grandfather' (⟨Nemoghhome⟩ < PEA *nəməhxōm < PA *nemehšo·ma) was taken into Western Abenaki as WAb (nmahom) 'my grandfather', displacing the inherited word WAb ⟨nmosom(is)⟩ in its original primary meaning (now 'my remote male ancestor').”
  2. Joseph Laurent (1884) New Familiar Abenakis and English Dialogues: The First Ever Published on the Grammatical System, page 20: “Nmahom.”
  3. James Hammond Trumbull (1903) “*hômes”, in Natick Dictionary, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 28
  4. F. O'Brien & J. Jennings (2001) Introduction to the Narragansett Language‎, Newport: Aquidneck Indian Council, →LCCN, page 86

Further reading

Portuguese

Noun

homes

  1. plural of home
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