Where does “hun” come from?
hun (Hungarian) comes from Hungarian hű, from Hungarian hisz, from Hungarian hiszen, from Hungarian hiszem, from Hungarian -em, from Hungarian -én, from Hungarian -é, from Albanian -ë — Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups...
hun (Hungarian): of or relating to the Huns; Hun; Alternative form...
Definitions
- of or relating to the Huns; Hun; Alternative form...
Ancestry of “hun”, step by step
hun traces back through 3 separate lines of ancestry.
via Hungarian hű
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hungarian | hű | faithful; oh!; wow! |
| 2 | Hungarian | hisz | to believe, have faith in; to think; as, because;... |
| 3 | Hungarian | hiszen | as, because; said if something follows obviously... |
| 4 | Hungarian | hiszem | first-person singular indicative present definite... |
| 5 | Hungarian | -em | Used to form the first-person singular present... |
| 6 | Hungarian | -én | on the specified day of the month attached to numbers with a hyphen, omitting the dot that indicates ordinal numbers |
| 7 | Hungarian | -é | Used to form the lative, expressing the direction... |
| 8 | Albanian | -ë | -ing, -ion |
| 9 | Proto-West Germanic | -jā | — |
| 10 | Proto-Indo-European | -íh₂ | — |
| 11 | Proto-Indo-European | -h₂ | Creates collective nouns, which refer to groups... |