hoffen
Meaning
to hope
Synonyms
Translations
espérer
hopen
sperare
esperar
esperar
ummak
sperare
tener esperanzaFrequency
Dialects
Zürich
hoffe
Aargau
hoffe
St. Gallen
hoffe
Zug
hoffe
Bern
hoffe
Zürich
hoffä
Bern
hoffä
Basel-Landschaft
hoffe
Basel-Stadt
hoffe
Lucerne
hoffe
Solothurn
hoffe
Graubünden
hoffa
St. Gallen
hoffa
Obwalden
hoffä
Fribourg
hoffe
Thurgau
hoffe
Valais
hoffu
Basel-Stadt
hoffä
Aargau
hoffä
Thurgau
hoffä
Schaffhausen
hoffä
Schwyz
hoffe
Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈhɔfən/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle High German hoffen (12th c.), from northern Old High German *hoffōn, from Proto-West Germanic *hopōn. It is uncertain whether the (unattested but probable) Old High German form was inherited or rather borrowed from Old Dutch hopon with implementation of the High German consonantism (which was then still entirely predictable). In fact, some scholars consider that all continental forms go back to Old English hopian, introduced as a religious term by Anglo-Saxon missionaries. The word was at any rate absent from Upper German, where it only established itself in later Middle High German, gradually displacing the now obsolete gedingen. See English hope for more.
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