hune

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”).

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /yn/

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hune f (plural hunes)

1. (nautical) foretop

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

From Proto-Polynesian *fune – compare with Tahitian hune, Samoan fune and Tongan fune.^[1][2] Sense of pappus transferred from "breadfruit core" > "fluffy pappus [and its receptacle]" due to absence of breadfruit in New Zealand's temperate climate.

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

• 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.

• IPA^(key): /ˈxu.ne/, [ˈhu.ne]

hune f

1. horehound (herb)

Weak n-stem:

• IPA^(key): [ˈɦuɲe]

hune

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