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From Middle English huge, from Old French ahuge (“high, lofty, great, large, huge”), of unknown origin. One theory derives it from an underlying Old French a hoge (“at height”), from a (“at, to”) + hoge (“a hill, height”), the latter from Frankish *haug or cognate Old Norse haugr (“hill”); both from Proto-Germanic *haugaz (“hill, mound”), from Proto-Indo-European *kowkós (“hill, mound”), from the root Proto-Indo-European *kewk-, whence also English high.
*kewk-
Proto-Indo-European
huge
Middle English
ahuge
Old French
*haug
frk
haugr
Old Norse
*haugaz
Proto-Germanic
*kowkós
Proto-Indo-European
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