हूण

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Etymology[edit]

Of Central Asian origin. Pulleyblank (2000) proposes that हूण (hūṇa) shares the same underlying source as English Huns, Late Latin Hunni, Koine Greek Οὗννοι (Hoûnnoi), Sogdian [script needed] (xwn), and Old Chinese 匈奴 (*qʰoŋ naː) (318 CE), the last of which, according to Schuessler (2014), possibly transcribed foreign *Hǒna ~ *Hǔna.[1][2] For more see Huna people and Xiongnu.

While the name of the Hunas apparently derived from the same source as Hun, the two groups were not necessarily synonymous and their exact relationship is unclear.[3]

Pronunciation[edit]

Proper noun[edit]

हूण • (hūṇa) stem, m

  1. the name of a barbarous people, the Huna people: a Central Asian (likely Turkic-Mongolic) tribe that invaded the Gupta Empire

Declension[edit]

Masculine a-stem declension of हूण (hūṇa)
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative हूणः
hūṇaḥ 		हूणौ / हूणा¹
hūṇau / hūṇā¹ 		हूणाः / हूणासः¹
hūṇāḥ / hūṇāsaḥ¹
Vocative हूण
hūṇa 		हूणौ / हूणा¹
hūṇau / hūṇā¹ 		हूणाः / हूणासः¹
hūṇāḥ / hūṇāsaḥ¹
Accusative हूणम्
hūṇam 		हूणौ / हूणा¹
hūṇau / hūṇā¹ 		हूणान्
hūṇān
Instrumental हूणेन
hūṇena 		हूणाभ्याम्
hūṇābhyām 		हूणैः / हूणेभिः¹
hūṇaiḥ / hūṇebhiḥ¹
Dative हूणाय
hūṇāya 		हूणाभ्याम्
hūṇābhyām 		हूणेभ्यः
hūṇebhyaḥ
Ablative हूणात्
hūṇāt 		हूणाभ्याम्
hūṇābhyām 		हूणेभ्यः
hūṇebhyaḥ
Genitive हूणस्य
hūṇasya 		हूणयोः
hūṇayoḥ 		हूणानाम्
hūṇānām
Locative हूणे
hūṇe 		हूणयोः
hūṇayoḥ 		हूणेषु
hūṇeṣu
Notes
  • ¹Vedic

Descendants[edit]

  • Prakrit: 𑀳𑀽𑀡 (hūṇa)
  • → Bengali: হূণ (hun)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Pulleyblank, Edwin (2000), “Ji and Jiang: The Role of Exogamic Clans in the Organization of the Zhou Polity”, in Early China, volume 25, Society for the Study of Early China, page 17 of pages 1-27
  2. ^ Schuessler, Axel (2014). "Phonological Notes on Hàn Period Transcriptions of Foreign Names and Words" in Studies in Chinese and Sino-Tibetan Linguistics: Dialect, Phonology, Transcription and Text. Series: Language and Linguistics Monograph Series. 53 Ed. VanNess Simmons, Richard & Van Auken, Newell Ann. Institute of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan. p. 257, 264 of 249-292
  3. ^ Haywood, John (2002). Historical Atlas of the Classical World 500BC-600AD. New York: Barnes & Noble Books. p. 2.23.
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