Huu

Borrowed from Vietnamese Hữu.

Huu

1. A male given name from Vietnamese.
   • 2023 January 23, Jeff Winter, Casey Tolan, Scott Glover, “Gunman had been a regular patron at dance hall he attacked, according to people who knew him”, in CNN‎^[1], archived from the original on 30 March 2023:

     Police say Huu Can Tran, 72, opened fire at Star Ballroom Dance Studio in the Los Angeles suburb of Monterey Park, on Saturday night, before fatally shooting himself after a manhunt across the region on Sunday.

From Old High German hūh, from Proto-West Germanic *hūō (“owl”). Cognate with German Uhu (“eagle owl”), Dutch huilen (“to cry, weep; to howl”), English howl.

Huu m

1. (Uri) owl, especially the Eurasian eagle owl

• Abegg, Emil, (1911) Die Mundart von Urseren (Beiträge zur Schweizerdeutschen Grammatik. IV.) [The Dialect of Urseren], Frauenfeld, Switzerland: Huber & Co., page 25.