| Anc.Greek | hybos | hump (of camel) |
| Anc.Eg. | hb, heb | A massive animal, whence hippopótamos (Goedicke, Hans, J.Indo-EuropeanStudies 1973: 316-317). This animal cannot be likened to a horse by any stretch of imagination |
| Anc.Eg. | hip, hippen | Ibis (long curved bill) |
| Anc.Greek | ibis | id. |
| Lat. | ibex | a kind of mountain goat with long curved horns (Span. ibice appears to be a calque of Lat..) |
| Turkish | ibik | (pre-Osman substr.) bird crest |
| Germ. | haube | crest |
| Germ.reg. | heubellerche | Crested Lark, 299 |
| Germ.: Suisse | hueb, hubel, gubel | mound, hill |
| Germ.(OHG) | huba | crest |
| Germ. | haube | crest |
| Germ.: Souabe | hobbhahn | Hoopoe, 263 |
| Engl. | hub | central part of a wheel, core, pivot, heart, centre of activity |
| Engl. | hob | a rustic, a clownish lout, cf. goujatð4.1.4.5.; projection at the side of a fireplace |
| Engl. | hobby | small horse (roundish or thickset; no kin to hobby, a species of falcon, or to O. French hober - as in Klein) |
| Engl. | hobnail | large-headed nail |
| Engl. | hobnob | to associate with; an informal chat (notion of group, cf. hub centre of activity). A tautonym, cf. nob, knobð4.7.2. (not "from habban to have + nabban not to have" which is non-explanatory |
| Engl. | hobgoblin | evil spirit. A tautonym, cf. goblinð4.4.1.3.; so named because of its pointed, curved hat with which it is usually represented (not "a special use of Hob for Robert" which is also non-explanatory) |