Etymology · Proto-Germanic
*hugiz
3 English words descend from Proto-Germanic *hugiz, most common first.
- HughA male given name from the Germanic languages.
- hugA close embrace, especially when charged with an emotion such as affection, joy, relief, lust, anger, aggression, compassion, or the like, as opposed to being characterized by formality, equivocation or ambivalence (a half-embrace).
- HubertA male given name from the Germanic languages, borne by an 8th-century bishop of Liège, patron saint of hunters.