Where does “Hu” come from?
Hu (English) comes from English Human, from Middle English humayne, from Middle French humain, from Old French humain, from Latin hūmānus, from Latin homō, from Old Latin hemō, from Proto-Italic hemō.
Hu (English): of east Asian derivation
Definitions
- of east Asian derivation
Ancestry of “Hu”, step by step
Hu traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via English Human
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | English | Human | The language supposedly spoken by humans |
| 2 | Middle English | humayne | human |
| 3 | Middle French | humain | human; human being; human |
| 4 | Old French | humain | — |
| 5 | Latin | hūmānus | human (of man, people) |
| 6 | Latin | homō | human, person, man |
| 7 | Old Latin | hemō | — |
| 8 | Proto-Italic | hemō | man |
| 9 | Proto-Indo-European | ǵʰmṓ | earthling |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | dʰéǵʰōm | earth |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -ōm | emphatic suffix or postpositive particle |
| 12 | Proto-Indo-European | -mi | — |
via Arabic هو
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arabic | هو | he; it; copulative force |
| 2 | Proto-Semitic | *šuʔa | he (masculine third-person singular personal pronoun) |
via Chinese 胡
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chinese | 胡 | fiddle |