houille
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old Walloon (Liégeois) hulhes ( > modern Wallon hoye), probably from Frankish *hukila (“pile, mound”), a diminutive form (compare dialectal Dutch heukel), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“to arch, bend, curve, vault”), see also Proto-Germanic *huppōną (“to hop”), *hufą (“elevated place”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]- (aspirated h) IPA(key): /uj/
Audio: (file)
Noun
[edit]houille f (plural houilles)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “588-92”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 588-92
- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “heukel2”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
Further reading
[edit]- “houille”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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