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Huron

/y.ʁɔ̃/

proper noun/y.ʁɔ̃/

the Wendat, a Native American people of the Huron Confederacy. The Wyandot and the Huron-Wendat are their cultural descendants

From Middle French huron (“bristle-haired”), from Old French hure (“bristly, unkempt, shaggy”), of possible Germanic origin.

noun, masculine/y.ʁɔ̃/plural: Hurons

a member of this people

Related: Lac Huron

From Middle French huron (“bristle-haired”), from Old French hure (“bristly, unkempt, shaggy”), of possible Germanic origin.