Neuter
🐔

Huhn

Meaning

  1. (in-plural, neuter, strong) chicken
  2. (neuter, strong) hen
  3. (abbreviation, alt-of, clipping, neuter, strong) clipping of Hühnervogel (“landfowl”)

Frequency

B2
Dialects

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

byppi

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

huen

Basel-Landschaft

Basel-Landschaft

mischtgratzerli

St. Gallen

St. Gallen

hänn

Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Pronounced as (IPA)
/huːn/
Etymology

In summary

From Middle High German huon, from Old High German huon, from Proto-West Germanic *hōn. Compare Dutch hoen. See also German Henne.

Notes

Sign in to write sticky notes