hunn
Alemannic German
Alternative forms
- hun, hund, 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
hunn m
- (Issime) dog
References
- “hunn” 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
Luxembourgish
Etymology
From Old High German havēn, northern variant of habēn, from Proto-Germanic *habjaną. 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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hun/
- Homophone: Hunn
Verb
hunn (third-person singular present huet, preterite hat, past participle gehat, past subjunctive hätt, auxiliary verb hunn)
- to have
Conjugation
| infinitive | hunn | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| participle | gehat | ||||||
| auxiliary | hunn | ||||||
| singular | plural | ||||||
| 1st person ech | 2nd person du | 3rd person hien/si/hatt | 1st person mir | 2nd person dir | 3rd person si | ||
| indicative | present simple | hunn | hues | huet | hunn | hutt | hunn |
| preterite | hat | has | hat | haten | hat | haten | |
| present perfect | hu gehat | bass gehat | ass gehat | hu gehat | hutt gehat | hu gehat | |
| past perfect | hat gehat | has gehat | hat gehat | hate gehat | hat gehat | hate gehat | |
| future simple | wäert hunn | wäerts hunn | wäert hunn | wäerten hunn | wäert hunn | wäerten hunn | |
| future perfect | wäert gehat hunn | wäerts gehat hunn | wäert gehat hunn | wäerte gehat hunn | wäert gehat hunn | wäerte gehat hunn | |
| conditional | simple | hätt | häss | hätt | hätten | hätt | hätten |
| present | géif hunn | géifs hunn | géif hunn | géifen hunn | géift hunn | géifen hunn | |
| perfect | hätt gehat | häss gehat | hätt gehat | hätte gehat | hätt gehat | hätte gehat | |
| imperative | affirmative | – | hief | — | — | hieft | — |
Norwegian Bokmål
Alternative forms
- ho (Nynorsk)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /hʉn/
- Homophones: hund, hun
Noun
hunn m (definite singular hunnen, indefinite plural hunner, definite plural hunnene)
- (zoology) a female
Antonyms
- hann
References
- “hunn” in The Bokmål Dictionary.