Hunnu
See also: hunnu
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from Mongolian ᠬᠣᠨᠨᠣ (qonno) meaning "people" in an old language used by people of the northern steppes referred to as the Northerners (or Northern-lineage; Korean 북방계 (bukbanggye), Mandarin 北方系 (běifāngxì), Japanese 北方系 (Hoppōkei)).
Learned from Latin Hunni, romanization, and Russian Хунну (Xunnu), cyrillization of the word. Doublet of Xiongnu and Hun, romanization of Mandarin 匈奴 (Xiōngnú) and Mandarin 匈 (Xiōng), that are transliteration of the original word, Hunnu, in itself using Hanzi characters with the closest sound.
Proper noun
[edit]Hunnu m pl (plural only)
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
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- French terms borrowed from Mongolian
- French terms derived from Mongolian
- French terms derived from Latin
- French terms borrowed from Russian
- French terms derived from Russian
- French doublets
- French terms derived from Mandarin
- French lemmas
- French proper nouns
- French pluralia tantum
- French masculine nouns
- French nouns
- French countable nouns