húnn

From Old Norse húnn (“knob at the top of a mast-head”), from Proto-Germanic *hūnaz, *hūna(n)- (“top of a stick”).

• IPA^(key): /hutn/

  Rhymes: -utn

húnn m (genitive singular húns, nominative plural húnar)

1. a door handle, a doorknob
2. a flagpole's knob

   Að draga fána að hún.

   To hoist a flag.

3. a bear cub

• Guus Kroonen, “Reflections on the o/zero-Ablaut in the Germanic Iterative Verbs”, in The Indo-European Verb: Proceedings of the Conference of the Society for Indo-European Studies, Los Angeles, 13-15 September 2010, Wiesbaden: Reichert Verlag, 2012

From Proto-Germanic *hūnaz.

húnn m (genitive húns)

1. a bear cub
   1. (endearing) a boy
2. (poetic) urchin (clarification of this definition is needed)
3. knob atop a mast-head

• Icelandic: húnn
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hun
• → Old French: hune
  • Middle French: hune
    • French: hune

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

húnn m (genitive húns)

1. a die

   þeir verpa húnum

   they cast dice

• Icelandic: húnn
• Norwegian Nynorsk: hon, hun
• Norwegian Bokmål: hon, hon

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “húnn”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 219; also available at the Internet Archive