հուն

From Middle Armenian հուն (hun), from Old Armenian հուն (hun), from Proto-Indo-European *pónteh₁s.

• (Eastern Armenian) IPA^(key): /hun/,
• (Western Armenian) IPA^(key): /hun/,

հուն • (hun)

1. ford, shallow

   Հունը չգիտցած գետը մտնել։ ― Hunə čʻgitcʻac getə mtnel. ― To enter the river not knowing the ford.

2. riverbed
3. dried riverbed
4. bottom of the sea, lake or river
5. way, direction, course

   հունի մեջ դնել ― huni meǰ dnel ― to put into the right order or course, to give an adequate course or direction

   հունի մեջ ընկնել ― huni meǰ ənknel ― to fall onto the right direction, to begin with an ordered work

   հունից հանել ― hunicʻ hanel ― to take out of the right order

6. (dialectal) top

   հուն ելնել ― hun elnel ― to vanquish, to surmount (literally, to come up to the top)

• “հուն”, in Žamanakakicʻ hayocʻ lezvi bacʻatrakan baṙaran [Explanatory Dictionary of Contemporary Armenian] (in Armenian), Yerevan: Academy Press, 1969–1980
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 424

From Old Armenian հուն (hun), from Proto-Indo-European *pónteh₁s.

հուն • (hun)

1. way, direction, course

   ի հուն ելնել ― i hun elnel ― to come to one's senses, to come to reason

   ի հուն հանել ― i hun hanel ― to bring to reason, to bring to senses

2. limit, border, end
3. top

   ի հուն ելանել ― i hun elanel ― to cope with, succeed in, to come up to the top, to a successful accomplishment

   ի հուն հանել ― i hun hanel ― to cause to succeed

• Armenian: հուն (hun)

• Ġazaryan, Ṙuben, Avetisyan, Henrik (2009) “ի հուն ելնել”, in Miǰin hayereni baṙaran [Dictionary of Middle Armenian] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1971–1979) “հուն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, Yerevan: University Press
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “հուն”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy

From Proto-Indo-European *pónteh₁s. See also Georgian ფონი (poni).

հուն • (hun)

1. ford, shallow
2. (as an adjective) shallow
3. passage, way
4. opening, gap

In the compound անհուն (anhun) the word also means ‘bottom, base’. For the sense development compare Latin vadum (“shallow, ford; bottom of the sea”).

• անհուն (anhun)

• Middle Armenian: հուն (hun)
  • Armenian: հուն (hun)

• Ačaṙean, Hračʻeay (1977) “հուն”, in Hayerēn armatakan baṙaran [Armenian Etymological Dictionary] (in Armenian), 2nd edition, a reprint of the original 1926–1935 seven-volume edition, volume III, Yerevan: University Press, pages 122–123
• Awetikʻean, G., Siwrmēlean, X., Awgerean, M. (1836–1837) “հուն”, in Nor baṙgirkʻ haykazean lezui [New Dictionary of the Armenian Language] (in Old Armenian), Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Hübschmann, Heinrich (1897) Armenische Grammatik. 1. Theil: Armenische Etymologie (in German), Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, pages 468–469
• Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 422
• Meillet, Antoine (1892) “Notes de phonétique”, in Mémoires de la Société de Linguistique de Paris (in French), volume 7, page 161 of 161–167
• Petrosean, Matatʻeay (1879) “հուն”, in Nor Baṙagirkʻ Hay-Angliarēn [New Dictionary Armenian–English], Venice: S. Lazarus Armenian Academy
• Thorsø, Rasmus (2023) Prehistoric loanwords in Armenian: Hurro-Urartian, Kartvelian, and the unclassified substrate‎, PhD dissertation, Leiden University, page 71