hune

See also: Hune and Hüne

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French hune, from Old French hune, a borrowing from Old Norse húnn, from Proto-Germanic *hūnaz. Cognate with English hune, hound (“foretop”).

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /yn/

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Noun

hune f (plural hunes)

1. (nautical) foretop

Further reading

• “hune”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Maori

Te henu i roto o te hua kuru.

Ngā hune raupō mutu

Etymology

From Proto-Polynesian *fune – compare with Tahitian hune, Samoan fune and Tongan fune. Sense of pappus transferred from "breadfruit core" > "fluffy pappus [and its receptacle]" due to absence of breadfruit in New Zealand's temperate climate.

Noun

hune

1. (obsolete) core of a breadfruit.
2. pappus of reeds like raupo that disperse its achened seeds.
3. down
   1. plant pubescence
   2. young soft feathers of a bird

Further reading

• Williams, Herbert William (1917) “hune”, in A Dictionary of the Maori Language, page 82
• “hune” in John C. Moorfield, Te Aka: Maori–English, English–Maori Dictionary and Index, 3rd edition, Longman/Pearson Education New Zealand, 2011, →ISBN.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxu.ne/, [ˈhu.ne]

Noun

hune f

1. horehound (herb)

Declension

Weak:

	singular	plural
nominative	hune	hunan
accusative	hunan	hunan
genitive	hunan	hunena
dative	hunan	hunum

Slovak

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦuɲe]

Noun

hune

1. inflection of huňa:
   1. nominative/accusative plural
   2. genitive singular