Dictionaries of the Scots Language
Dictionars o the Scots Leid

A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)

Hide Quotations Hide Etymology

Abbreviations Cite this entry

About this entry:
First published 1986 (DOST Vol. VI).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.

Quhom-of, Quhome-, Whome-of, interrog. and rel. phr. [Cf. Quham-of; Quhom pron. 8.] Of whom. a. interrog. b. simple relative.Of, from, concerning whom; also, as a partitive genitive, and as a possessive (= Quhais, Quhois); in senses 3, 4, 5 of Quham, Quhom.a. (1) 1563 G. Hay Confutation Abbot Crosraguel 28.
I will ask of thee, whomeof hath thou that distinction?(2) c1460 Consail Vys Man 200.
Be weil war quhome of thou spekb. (1) 1573 Reg. Privy C. II 273.
Letters to be direct upoun the persounis quhome of thai have bandis 1598 James VI Basil. Doron 158/9.
Considdering … quhat intrese he can haue in the ueill or euill of him quhomof he makis the reporte(2) c1400 Troy-bk. ii 841 (C).
The kyng Pryame whome-of [D. quhom-of] thow Toke so gret gyftes ?a1500 Obsecro 70.
And for Sanct Dauidis saik, the king Quhom of, Lady, thow can spring 1535 Stewart 22038.
Agane the Romanis for to mak stryfe or weir, Quhomeof that tyme that all the warld tuke feir Ib. 23142.
And of Conanus sone he wes also, Quhomeof I schew ȝow schort quhile syne ago Ib. 28337, 38236, etc. 1560 Rolland Seven S. 8357.
Onlie ane sone he had … Quhome of thai tuik greit mirth [etc.] 1573 Davidson Sat. P. xl 97.
It is Iohne Knox, in deid, quhome of I mene 1612 Fraserburgh Kirk S. 3a (29 July).
Scho was ane comoune huir and had companyit with mony by him quhom of he gaif up thir to try hir upon(3) 1535 Stewart 43717.
With mony townis mo, That Cristen men inhabite in tha dais; Quhome of neuir ane, as that my author sais, He left levand(4) a1585 Maitl. Q. xcv 11.
Vnto our knycht S. Ritchard Maitland geuin Quhom of the fame is planted in all places