Huron
English
Etymology
From French Huron; Uncertain; possibly from French hure (“boar’s head”) or from a Wyandot word containing the Iroquoian root ronon (“nation”).
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈhjʊɹɑn/, /ˈhjɝɑn/
Audio (US) (file) - (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈhjʊəɹɒn/, /ˈhjɔːɹɒn/
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
Huron (plural Hurons or Huron)
- (archaic) A member of the Wyandot people, a Native American group.
Derived terms
noun and proper noun
Translations
Proper noun
Huron
- (archaic) Synonym of Hurons; The Wyandot people
- A placename in the United States:
- A city in Fresno County, California.
- An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, Indiana.
- A tiny city in Atchison County, Kansas.
- An unincorporated community in Polk County, Missouri.
- A city in Erie County, Ohio.
- A town and hamlet in Wayne County, New York.
- A city, the county seat of Beadle County, South Dakota.
- An unincorporated community in Henderson County, Tennessee.
- An unincorporated community in Chippewa County, Wisconsin.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Huron Township.
- A former township, now part of Huron-Kinloss township, Bruce County, Ontario, Canada, since 1999.
- Lake Huron
French
Etymology
From Middle French huron (“bristle-haired”), from Old French hure (“bristly, unkempt, shaggy”), of possible Germanic origin.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /y.ʁɔ̃/
Audio (file)
Proper noun
Huron m
- (obsolete) the Wendat, a Native American people of the Huron Confederacy. The Wyandot and the Huron-Wendat are their cultural descendants
Derived terms
- Lac Huron
Descendants
- English: Huron
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