See also: Hunn, húnn, and Húnn

Alemannic German edit

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Etymology edit

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

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hunn m

  1. (Issime) dog

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Luxembourgish edit

Etymology edit

From Middle High German haben, from Old High German havēn, northern variant of habēn, from Proto-West Germanic *habbjan.

The modern vocalism (-u-, -ue-) implies that the shortening into a monosyllable, common throughout western High German, must have occurred rather late in Luxembourgish. (The shift -a--ue- requires an open syllable.)

The expected imperative would be *huef. The form hief is perhaps influenced by hief, imperative of hiewen (to lift), or by sief, imperative of sinn (to be), though this latter form is itself unclear.

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Verb edit

hunn (third-person singular present huet, preterite hat, past participle gehat, past subjunctive hätt, auxiliary verb hunn)

  1. to have

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Norwegian Bokmål edit

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  • ho (Nynorsk)

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Noun edit

hunn m (definite singular hunnen, indefinite plural hunner, definite plural hunnene)

  1. (zoology) a female

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