Huh
|
|
In Egyptian mythology, Huh (or Hah or Heh) was one of the Ogdoad. Along with his wife, Hauhet (feminine form of Huh), he was the personification of eternity. Like all the male gods of the Ogdoad, he was often depicted as frog-headed. The other common representation of him depicts him crouching, holding a palm stem in each hand (or just one), sometimes with a palm stem in his hair, as palm stems represented long life to the Egyptians. Depictions of this form also had a shen ring at the base of each palm stem, which represented infinity. Depictions of Huh were also used in Hieroglyphs to represent one million, which essentially was equivalent to infinity in Egyptian thought.
Template:Wiktionary Huh is a simple sound representing confusion of the one making it, similar to er and other speech disfluencies.
It can also represent unarticulated muttering such as in Huh-euh-huh.
Huh can be a slang way of creating an interrogative which is nearly rhetorical, giving huh the meaning of "isn't it?", e.g., "France is cool, huh?"
Huh used as a statement can also mean 'I tentatively accept that.', however the intonation drops instead of rises in pitch.
Uh before Huh states "yes", and the pitch of "huh" is usually higher than "uh."de:Huh fr:heh