huge

Significado (Inglês)

  1. Very large.
  2. (informal) Very strong, powerful, or dedicated.
  3. (informal) Very interesting, significant, or popular.

Freqüência

A2
Pronunciado como (IPA)
/hjuːd͡ʒ/
Etimologia (Inglês)

In summary

From Middle English huge, from Old French ahuge (“high, lofty, great, large, huge”), from a hoge (“at height”), from a (“at, to”) + hoge (“a hill, height”), from Frankish *haug, *houg (“height, hill”) or Old Norse haugr (“hill”); both from Proto-Germanic *haugaz (“hill, mound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kowkós (“hill, mound”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *kewk-. Akin to Old High German houg (“mound”) (compare related German Hügel (“hill”)), Old Norse haugr (“mound”), Lithuanian kaũkaras (“hill”), Old High German hōh (“high”) (whence German hoch), Old English hēah (“high”). More at high.

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