houille

French

Etymology

From Old Walloon (Liégeois) hulhes ( > modern Wallon hoye), probably from Frankish *hukila (“pile, mound”), a diminutive form (compare dialectal Dutch heukel), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kewp- (“to arch, bend, curve, vault”), see also Proto-Germanic *huppōną (“to hop”), *hufą (“elevated place”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • (aspirated h) IPA(key): /uj/
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Noun

houille f (plural houilles)

  1. stone coal, mineral coal

Derived terms

Descendants

  • → Galician: hulla
  • → Portuguese: hulha
  • → Romanian: huilă
  • → Spanish: hulla

See also

References

  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “588-92”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 588-92
  2. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “heukel2”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

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