different between hun vs hui

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?n/

Etymology 1

Noun

hun (plural huns)

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

Etymology 2

Short for Hungarian partridge.

Noun

hun (plural huns)

1. A grey partridge.

Anagrams

• nuh, unh

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• hund, hunn, hònn (Walser)
• Hund

Etymology

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

Noun

hun m

1. (Formazza) dog

References

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

Breton

Noun

hun ?

1. sleep

Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Noun

hun m (plural huns, feminine huna)

1. Hun

Further reading

• “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.

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hón (“she”), from Proto-Norse *???? (*hanu), the feminine form, with u-umlaut, of *????? (*hanaz) (= Danish han (“he”), Old Norse hann).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?hun]

Pronoun

hun (objective case hende, possessive hendes)

1. (personal) she

See also

References

• “hun,2” in Den Danske Ordbog

Noun

hun c (singular definite hunnen, plural indefinite hunner)

1. female, she

Inflection

References

• “hun,1” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n/
• Hyphenation: hun
• Rhymes: -?n

Etymology 1

Pronoun

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.

Usage notes

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 been used interchangeably in Modern Dutch since the language has lost its grammatical case system. Many native 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 where they are used in the exactly opposite way from van Heule's rule; for example:

• 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.

Pronoun

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

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

Inflection

Related terms

• zij, ze
• hen

Etymology 2

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. It's similar to dialectal zun often used colloquially in the Belgian province of Antwerp, which is a contraction of ze ("they") + hun ("them"), and which is also only used for people. Also 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.

Pronoun

hun (personal)

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

   Synonyms: zijlui, zijlieden

Usage notes

• 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.
• For a 3rd person plural pronoun referring to people only, zijlui or zijlieden can be used instead.

Hungarian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?hun]
• Rhymes: -un

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Latin Hunni.

Adjective

hun (not comparable)

1. Hunnic, Hunnish (of or relating to the Huns)

Declension

Noun

hun (plural hunok)

1. Hun (a member of a nomadic tribe)

Declension

Etymology 2

From hol.

Adverb

hun

1. (dialectal) Alternative form of hol (“where”).

Derived terms

• sehun (dialectal)

References

Further reading

• (Hun, Hunnic): hun in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN
• (where [dialectal]): hun in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmez? szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: ?ISBN

Iu Mien

Etymology

From Chinese ? (MC ???n).

Noun

hun 

1. garden

Label

Etymology

Compare Tolai vudu and Patpatar hudu.

Noun

hun

1. banana

References

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

Malay

Noun

hun (plural hun-hun, informal 1st possessive hunku, impolite 2nd possessive hunmu, 3rd possessive hunnya)

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

Mandarin

Romanization

hun (Zhuyin ????)

1. Nonstandard spelling of h?n.
2. Nonstandard spelling of hún.
3. Nonstandard spelling of h?n.
4. Nonstandard spelling of hùn.

Usage notes

• 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.

Middle English

Noun

hun

1. Alternative form of hund (“hundred”)

Middle Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?n/

Numeral

hun

1. h-prothesized form of un

Min Nan

Mizo

Noun

hun

1. time

North Frisian

Etymology

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

Noun

hun f (plural hunen)

1. (Föhr-Amrum) (anatomy) hand

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology 1

From Danish hun, from Old Norse hón.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?n/
• Homophones: hund, hunn
• Rhymes: -?n

Pronoun

hun (accusative henne, genitive hennes)

1. she

Derived terms

• hunkjønn / hunnkjønn

See also

• ho (Nynorsk)
• hoe (Nynorsk)

Etymology 2

From Old Norse húnn (“a die”).

Alternative forms

• hon

Noun

hun m (definite singular hunen, indefinite plural huner, definite plural hunene)

1. back board

References

• “hun” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

From Old Norse húnn (“bear cub”), from Proto-Germanic *h?naz.

Noun

hun m (definite singular hunen, indefinite plural hunar, definite plural hunane)

1. a bear cub

   Synonym: bjørnunge

Etymology 2

From Old Norse húnn (“die”).

Alternative forms

• (since 2019) hon

Noun

hun m (definite singular hunen, indefinite plural hunar, definite plural hunane)

1. back part of a log that might still be used as a plank

Etymology 3

From Old Norse húnar pl and húnir pl.

Noun

hun m (definite singular hunen, indefinite plural hunar, definite plural hunane)

1. a Hun; form removed by a 2016 spelling decision; superseded by hunar

References

Old Portuguese

Article

hun

1. Alternative form of ?u

Romanian

Etymology

From French Huns, from Latin Hunni.

Noun

hun m (plural huni)

1. Hun

Declension

Tetum

Noun

hun

1. bottom, base
2. beginning
3. origin

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [hun??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [hun??]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [h?w??m??]

Etymology 1

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. r?n, thúi vs. th?i.

Verb

hun • (?)

1. Central Vietnam and Southern Vietnam form of hôn

Synonyms

• th?m, hôn, chu, ch?t, mi

Etymology 2

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

Verb

hun • (?, ?, ?)

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

Derived terms

Welsh

Pronunciation

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /h??n/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /hi?n/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *h?n, from Proto-Celtic *sounos, from Proto-Indo-European *swépnos (“sleep”).

Noun

hun f (plural hunau, not mutable)

1. sleep

Derived terms

• huno (verb)

Etymology 2

The pronoun is a lexicalization of the mutated numeral.

Numeral

hun

1. h-prothesized form of un

Mutation

Pronoun

hun

1. (with possessive article, North Wales) self

Related terms

• hunan (South Wales)

Yucatec Maya

Etymology

From Proto-Mayan *juun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?hun]

Numeral

hun

1. one

Derived terms

References

• Beltrán de Santa Rosa María, Pedro (1746) Arte de el idioma maya reducido a succintas reglas, y semilexicon yucateco (in Spanish), Mexico: Por la Biuda de D. Joseph Bernardo de Hogal, page 152: “Hun. Vno. 1.”
• Montgomery, John (2004) Maya-English, English-Maya (Yucatec) Dictionary & Phrasebook, New York: Hippocrene Books, Inc., ?ISBN, pages 58, 203

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Maori.

Noun

hui (plural huis)

1. (New Zealand) A M?ori social gathering or assembly.

Anagrams

• UHI

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin hodi?, from h?c +? di? (literally “on this day”), through Vulgar Latin *oie and Old Occitan [Term?].

Pronunciation

• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /wi/

Adverb

hui

1. (Valencia) Alternative form of avui
2. (other dialects) Archaic form of avui.

Dutch

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?œy?/
• Hyphenation: hui
• Rhymes: -œy?

Noun

hui f (uncountable)

1. (dated, dialectal) whey

   Synonym: wei

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hui?/, [?hui?]
• Rhymes: -ui
• Syllabification: hui

Interjection

hui

1. oh! (an exclamation when scared or startled)

French

Etymology

From Old French hui, from Vulgar Latin *oie, from Latin hodi?, from h?c (“this”) + di?.

Cognate with Occitan uòi, uèi, Catalan hui and avui, Galician hoxe, Spanish hoy, Portuguese hoje and Italian oggi.

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /?i/

Adverb

hui

1. (obsolete) today

Usage notes

• Only used in contemporary French in the word aujourd'hui

German

Interjection

hui

1. an exclamation of pleasant surprise

Further reading

• “hui” in Duden online

Hawaiian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

hui

1. club, organization
2. company, firm
3. combination
4. cluster
5. (music) chorus (refrain)
6. (mathematics) plus sign

Verb

hui

1. (intransitive) to meet

2. (intransitive) to unite, join
3. (intransitive) to combine

See also

• h?

Ido

Noun

hui

1. plural of huo

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hui?/, [h?i?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /uj/, [uj]

Interjection

hui

1. ho!, my word! (expressing surprise)
2. ooh!, aah! (expressing admiration)

References

• hui in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hui in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• hui in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• hui in Ramminger, Johann (accessed 16 July 2016) Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700?^[1], pre-publication website, 2005-2016

Mandarin

Romanization

hui (Zhuyin ????)

1. Pinyin transcription of ????

hui

1. Nonstandard spelling of hu?.
2. Nonstandard spelling of huí.
3. Nonstandard spelling of hu?.
4. Nonstandard spelling of huì.

Usage notes

• 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.

See also

• -huì

Maori

Verb

hui

1. to gather, congregate, assemble, meet

Noun

hui

1. gathering, meeting, assembly, seminar, conference

Middle English

Pronoun

hui

1. Alternative form of he (“they”)

Northern Sami

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?huj/

Adverb

hui

1. very

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[2], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Old French

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *oie, from Latin hodi?.

Noun

hui m

1. today

Descendants

• French: hui (obsolete); ? aujourd'hui
  • Haitian Creole: jodi a
• Walloon: ouy

Spanish

Alternative forms

• huí (deprecated)

Verb

hui

1. First-person singular (yo) preterite indicative form of huir.