Hue
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈhweɪ/
Proper noun
Hue
- A port city in central Vietnam.
- Hue is the capital of Vietnam's North Central Coast economic region.
- A Vietnamese province with that city as its capital.
Translations
city, province of Vietnam
Alemannic German
Etymology
From Middle High German huon, from Old High German huon, from Proto-Germanic *hōną (“hen, chicken”). Cognate with German Huhn, Dutch hoen.
References
- “Hue” in Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & co., page 29.
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Vietnamese Huế.
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