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  • The k sound present in the variant form *kus- shifted to an h sound in the ancestor language of English, as seen in the Old English words hosa and hose, covering for the legs, and early versions of modern hose, as in pantyhose and hosiery.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • The k sound present in the variant form *kus- shifted to an h sound in the ancestor language of English, as seen in the Old English words hosa and hose, covering for the legs, and early versions of modern hose, as in pantyhose and hosiery.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

  • It appears that when Aristotle intensifies the expression by writing panta hosa, as he does once here, he means to signal a convertible universal, an ˜entailment™ as we would say.

    Aristotle's Biology Lennox, James 2006

  • And again as many as (hosa) have blood all (panta) have a heart ¦.

    Aristotle's Biology Lennox, James 2006

  • First is the syntactically redundant linguistic pattern hosa ¦ panta, variants of which are common in this treatise.

    Aristotle's Biology Lennox, James 2006

  • As many as (hosa) are four legged and live-bearing all

    Aristotle's Biology Lennox, James 2006

  • Ho de huios sophia te esti kai epistēmē, kai alētheia, kai, hosa alla toutō sungenē. — “As God” (absolutely) “falls not under demonstration,” (that is, cannot perfectly be declared,) “so he doth not”

    Christologia 1616-1683 1965

  • [313] Quoted from the _Rambler_ of March 1860, p. 364: [Greek: "Hopou men oun hapanta sunebê, hôsper kain ei heneka tou egineto, tauta men esôthê apo tou automatou sustanta epitêdeiôs hosa de mê houtôs apôleto kai apollutai, kathapeo Empedoklês legei ta bougenê kai androprôra.]"

    On the Genesis of Species St. George Mivart

  • VII. iv.: sun oudeni periergō kai magikō ē pharmakeutikō pragmati, alla monē euchē kai horkōsesin haplousterais kai hosa an dunaito prosagein haplousteros anthrōpos.

    The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

  • Besides the simple relative in its various cases we have - hosa ean Gen. 44: 1: Ex. 13: 12. henika ean Gen. 24: 41: Ex. 13: 5. hou ean Ex. 20: 24. kathos ean Sir.

    A Grammar of Septuagint Greek 1856-1924 1905

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