hun

• IPA^(key): /hʌn/

hun (plural huns)

1. (informal) Alternative spelling of hon (“affectionate abbreviation of honey”)

hun (plural huns)

1. A grey partridge.

• nuh, unh

• hund, hunn, hònn (Walser)
• Hund

From Middle High German hunt, from Old High German hunt, from Proto-Germanic *hundaz. Cognate with German Hund, Dutch hond, English hound, Icelandic hundur.

hun m

1. (Formazza) dog

• “hun” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

hun ?

1. sleep

• (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA^(key): /ˈun/
• Homophone: un

hun m (plural huns, feminine huna)

1. Hun

• “hun” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “hun” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “hun” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.

From Old Norse hon.

• IPA^(key): [hun]

hun c (singular definite hunnen, plural indefinite hunner)

1. female, she

hun (objective case hende, possessive hendes)

1. (personal) she

• “hun” in Den Danske Ordbog

• IPA^(key): /ɦʏn/

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hun (personal)

1. The dative case of the third-person plural personal pronoun: them, to them.
2. (proscribed) The accusative case of the third-person plural personal pronoun: them.

hun (personal) (dependent possessive) (independent possessive hunne)

1. The third-person plural possessive pronoun: their.

The difference between hen (as direct object) and hun (as indirect object) does not stem from actual language usage, but was created artificially by the prescriptive grammarian Christiaen van Heule in the 17th century in an attempt to differentiate between the accusative (direct object) and dative case (indirect object), a distinction that was then commonly made in the definite article and certain pronouns, but not the personal pronouns.

In practice, hen and hun have always been used interchangeably and many speakers are not aware or have trouble remembering when to use the one or the other, in part because of the rule's artificiality, in part because the distinction in form between the accusative and dative case has not been preserved anywhere else in the language. As a consequence, it is common to hear sentences like these:

• Hij heeft hun verraden. (“He has betrayed them.”)
• Ze zijn met hun uitgegaan. (“They have gone out with them.”)
• Ik heb het hen gegeven. (“I have given it to them.”)

When the pronoun is unstressed, the problem can be circumvented by using the reduced form ze:

• Hij heeft ze verraden.
• Ze zijn met ze uitgegaan.
• Ik heb het ze gegeven.

For more information, see the article in the Dutch Wikipedia.

• zij, ze
• hen

Likely a replacement of or based on dialectal Dutch hullie or a variant thereof, which is a contraction of hunlieden or hunlui, a compound of hun ("them") + lieden or lui (both meaning "men, people"), which then translates roughly into "them-people". Possibly reinfluenced by or confused with the possessive hun. This etymology explains why usage of hun occurs only when referring to people, never to objects. Compare Afrikaans hulle, which also stems from hunlui, but is now used also for things. For more information, see the article in the Dutch Wikipedia.

hun (personal)

1. (proscribed, regiolectal, Netherlands) The nominative case of the third-person plural personal pronoun: they (only referring to people).

• The use of hun as a subject is considered incorrect or substandard by most speakers, both in written and spoken language, and only occurs in the Netherlands.

• IPA^(key): [ˈhun]

hun (not comparable)

1. of or relating to Huns

hun

1. (regional) where (regional variant of hol)

• sehun

hun (plural hunok)

1. Hun

Compare Tolai vudu and Patpatar hudu.

hun

1. banana

• Ulrike Mosel, Tolai and Tok Pisin: the influence of the substratum on the development of New Guinea Pidgin (1980)

hun (plural hun-hun, informal first-person possessive hunku, informal second-person possessive hunmu, third-person possessive hunnya)

1. A unit of weight equal to one hundredth of a tahil.

hun (Zhuyin ˙ㄏㄨㄣ)

1. Nonstandard spelling of hūn.
2. Nonstandard spelling of hún.
3. Nonstandard spelling of hǔn.
4. Nonstandard spelling of hùn.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

hun

1. Alternative form of hund (“hundred”)

• IPA^(key): /hʉn/

hun

1. h-prothesized form of un

hun

1. time

From Old Frisian hond. Cognates include Mooring North Frisian hönj and West Frisian hân.

hun f (plural hunen)

1. (Föhr-Amrum) (anatomy) hand

   a rocht(er)/lacht(er) hun

   the right/left hand

From Old Norse hon.

• IPA^(key): /hʉn/
• Homophones: hund, hunn
• Rhymes: -ʉn

hun (accusative henne, genitive hennes)

1. she

• hunkjønn / hunnkjønn

• ho (Nynorsk)
• hoe (Nynorsk)

• “hun” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

hun

1. Alternative form of ũu

hun

1. bottom, base
2. beginning
3. origin

• (Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [hun˧˧]
• (Huế) IPA^(key): [hun˧˧]
• (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [hʊwŋ͡m˧˧]

Typical Central and Southern Vietnamese retention of medial *u, which often developed into ‹ô› (or ‹o›) in Northern dialects; later strengthened with the use of "slang" to avoid awkward situations. Compare rún vs. rốn, thúi vs. thối.

hun (㖧)

1. Eye dialect spelling of hôn, representing Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam Vietnamese.

• thơm, hôn, chu, chụt, mi

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 熏 (SV: huân).

hun (焝, 熏, 燻)

1. to smoke (to preserve or prepare (food) for consumption by treating with smoke)

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /hɨːn/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /hiːn/

hun

1. h-prothesized form of un