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PARTIAL ENGLISH COVERAGE · FULL CORPUS REMAINS LOCAL4 source sections across 2 headwords matching “Hun”. These are separate from the reviewed results below.
HunEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
From Old English Hūnas, Hūne (both plural), from Late Latin Hunni, from Koine Greek Οὗννοι (Hoûnnoi), borrowed through Middle Iranian. Cognate with Old Norse húnir, Old High German Hunni. See also etymology of Xiongnu. Compare Sogdian 𐼶𐼴𐼻 (xwn), Sanskrit हूण (hūṇa), and 匈奴 (OC *hoŋ-nâ) (c. 318 BCE) > *hɨoŋ-nɑ (Eastern Han), which Schuessler (2014:264) proposes to be transcription of foreign *Hŏna ~ Hŭna. More at Huns. As a derogatory term for Germans popularized by Rudyard Kipling, reacting to Germany's proposal that the Royal Navy be used to collect debts from Venezuela.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗HunEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
Borrowed from Khmer ហ៊ុន (hun).
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗hunEnglish (en) · Etymology 1Source text
Clipping of honey with pronunciation spelling.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗hunEnglish (en) · Etymology 2Source text
Clipping of Hungarian partridge.
Original Wiktionary entry and references ↗INDEPENDENT SOURCE LIBRARY
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MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
noun · verbcontrarian claim
boomerang
An Aboriginal Australian borrowing recorded in English by 1824. Dharug and Dharawal forms have been proposed, but the Australian National Dictionary Centre says the exact source language remains uncertain.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗German weak verbdossier summary
hetzen
A German weak verb whose modern senses range from driving or hunting quarry, through hurrying, to inciting hostility. The medieval record centers on setting dogs after game and already extends the action to turning people against one another. Comparative sources connect the verb with Old English hettan and Gothic hatjan, but the Old High German bridge and the exact prehistoric formation remain editorially disputed.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗nounhistorical form
qajaq
The Greenlandic word for a kayak, part of an Inuit and Proto-Eskimo word family whose history is independent of the nearly identical Turkish boat word kayık.
OPEN THE FULL LINEAGE ↗noun, adjective, pronounhistorical form
ten
The inherited English cardinal number, carried through Old English and Germanic from the Indo-European numeral also reflected in Latin decem.
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ATTESTED / RECONSTRUCTED / BOUNDARY
HISTORICAL FORMS
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Proto-Germanic / Indo-European
*tehun
ten
- DATE
- Proto-Germanic reconstruction, c. 500 BCE–200 CE
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- gloss
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- 1
German / Indo-European
hetzen
hunt or drive; hurry; incite or stir hostility
- DATE
- Modern German
- MATCH
- gloss
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- 1
Middle High German / Indo-European
hetzen / hatzen
drive dogs to hunt; pursue; incite people against someone
- DATE
- Middle High German
- MATCH
- gloss
- DOSSIERS
- 1
Early New High German / Indo-European
hetzen / hessen / hittzen
hunt with dogs; drive; set people against one another
- DATE
- Early New High German
- MATCH
- gloss
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- 1
Greenlandic / Eskimo-Aleut
qajaq
kayak; traditional narrow hunting and travel craft
- DATE
- Greenlandic record–today
- MATCH
- gloss
- DOSSIERS
- 1
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CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 2
openproposedposition text
Was shun the original meaning of hata?
Not established. Cleasby and Vigfússon propose that the poetic dative shun sense was probably original, then immediately say hatta with double t may be the better reading.
resolvedestablishedposition text
Did hetzen begin as a modern political hate-speech verb?
No. The Middle High German dictionary centers the verb on driving dogs to hunt and already records transferred human conflict; Early New High German sources later make incitement explicit.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 2
RANK 61GRADE Aranked reveal
Its most famous behavior is not universal—and even its exact donor language is unsettled.
Many hunting and fighting boomerangs do not return. Dharug and Dharawal sources have been proposed, while ANU keeps the exact language unresolved.
RANK 95GRADE Aranked reveal
Ten and decimal are cousins, not borrower and source.
English ten is inherited through Germanic; decimal is learned through Latin. Both independently continue the reconstructed Indo-European numeral family.
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SOURCES
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FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
ATTESTATION WITNESSES
SOURCE REPORTEDlexical corpus record
German Bible enemy proverb
Feind / Feind / 1483
Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob Grimm und Wilhelm Grimm — feind, m.witness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗SOURCE REPORTEDlexical corpus record
Duden modern sense inventory
hetzen / hetzen / Modern German lexicographic record
hetzen — Rechtschreibung, Bedeutung, Definition, Herkunftwitness excerpt / OPEN RECORD ↗06
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