English
Hugh
Hugh comes from Proto-Germanic *hugiz ‘heart, mind’.
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*hugiz‘heart, mind’reconstructed
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1597Hugh
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*hugiz‘heart, mind’reconstructed
- Englishearliest quotation c. 1597Hugh
Earliest quotation: c. 1597, William Shakespeare, The Merry Wiues of Windsor: “I will rather trust a Fleming with my butter,…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *ḱek- ‘to be able, capable’
through Proto-Germanic *hugiz ‘heart, mind’
Today it means
name A male given name from the Germanic languages.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *hugiz / Hugh