Hun

See also: Appendix:Variations of "hun"

English

Huns (etymology 1, noun sense 1)
Our Job Is to Beat the Hun (etymology 1, noun sense 3)
Huns (etymology 1, noun sense 4)

Etymology 1

From Old English Hūnas, Hūne (both plural), from Late Latin Hunni, from Koine Greek Οὗννοι (Hoûnnoi), borrowed through Middle Iranian. Cognate with Old Norse húnir, Old High German Hunni. See also etymology of Xiongnu.

Compare Sogdian 𐼶𐼴𐼻 (xwn), Sanskrit हूण (hūṇa), and 匈奴 (OC *hoŋ-nâ) (c. 318 BCE) > *hɨoŋ-nɑ (Eastern Han), which Schuessler (2014:264)[1] proposes to be transcription of foreign *Hŏna ~ Hŭna. More at Huns.

As a derogatory term for Germans popularized by Rudyard Kipling,[2] reacting to Germany's proposal that the Royal Navy be used to collect debts from Venezuela.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hʌn/
    • Audio (Australia):(file)
  • (Northern England, Ireland) IPA(key): /hʊn/
  • Rhymes: -ʌn

Noun

Hun (plural Huns)

  2. A member of a nomadic tribe (the Huns) who invaded Europe in the fourth century from Central Asia.
  4. (figuratively) A vandal, a barbarian, an uncivilized destructive person.
  6. (slang, derogatory, ethnic slur) A German.
    Synonyms: Fritz, Jerry, Kraut
    • 1919, Gerald Featherstone Knight, Brother Bosch: An Airman's Escape from Germany‎[1]:
      Doubtless the first German band to return to England will be composed of the most gentle peace and beer-loving Huns that ever visited our favoured shores.
  8. (slang, derogatory, UK, Ireland) A Protestant.
    Synonyms: Prod, Proddy, orangie, Orangeman
  9. (slang, derogatory, UK, Ireland) A Rangers Football Club supporter; an Orangeman.[3]
    Synonym: Orangeman
Derived terms
Translations

Etymology 2

    Borrowed from Khmer ហ៊ុន (hun).

    Proper noun

    Hun (plural Huns)

    1. A surname from Khmer.
    Statistics
    • According to the 2010 United States Census, Hun is the 35993rd most common surname in the United States, belonging to 623 individuals. Hun is most common among Asian/Pacific Islander (73.52%) and White (12.2%) individuals.

    Further reading

    References

    1. ^ Schuessler, Axel (2014). "Phonological Notes on Hàn Period Transcriptions of Foreign Names and Words" in Studies in Chinese and Sino-Tibetan Linguistics: Dialect, Phonology, Transcription and Text. Series: Language and Linguistics Monograph Series. 53 Ed. VanNess Simmons, Richard & Van Auken, Newell Ann. Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan.
    2. ^ Rudyard Kipling (1902), “The Rowers”, in The years between, Garden City, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1919: “‘In sight of peace—from the Narrow Seas / O'er half the world to run— / With a cheated crew, to league anew / With the Goth and the shameless Hun!’”
    3. ^ https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14781611.use-of-word-hun-and-jock-of-limited-concern-but-fenian-and-prod-is-unacceptable-says-ofcom/

    Anagrams

    Dutch

    Etymology

    From Late Latin Hunni.

    Pronunciation

    • Audio:(file)

    Noun

    Hun m (plural Hunnen, diminutive Hunnetje n)

    1. a Hun, member of the nomadic tribe
    2. (figuratively) a barbarian, brute

    French

    Etymology

    From Latin Hunni. Possibly a doublet of Xiongnu.

    Proper noun

    Hun m

    1. Huns; alternative form of Huns; a nomadic people originating out of Central Asia that invaded the Roman Empire in the 5th century

    Noun

    Hun m (plural Huns)

    1. Hun; a member of the Huns, a nomadic tribe originating out of Central Asia that invaded the Roman Empire in the 5th century

    Derived terms

    North Frisian

    Alternative forms

    Etymology

    From Old Frisian hond. Cognates include hân.

    Noun

    Hun f (plural Hunen)

    1. (Sylt) hand

    Old English

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /xuːn/, [huːn]

    Proper noun

    Hun m

    1. a male given name

    Further reading

    • A. D. Mills (9 October 2003), A Dictionary of British Place-Names‎[2], OUP Oxford, →ISBN

    Old High German

    Proper noun

    Hūn

    1. nominative/accusative singular of Hūni

    Tagalog

    Alternative forms

    Proper noun

    Hun (Baybayin spelling ᜑᜓᜈ᜔)

    1. abbreviation of Hunyo: Jun
      Coordinate terms: Ene, Peb, Mar, Abr, May, Hul, Ago, Set, Okt, Nob, Dis
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