jung

jung (plural jungs)

1. Alternative form of djong (“type of sailing ship”)

• jungu, jungà, junhs, jòng

From Middle High German junc, from Old High German jung, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁n̥ḱós.

jung

1. (Carcoforo) young

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter , Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

• djung, junk

From Middle High German junc, from Old High German jung, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁n̥ḱós.

jung (comparative jüngor, superlative dar jüngorste)

1. (Sette Comuni) young

• dorjùngaran

• jüngaran
• junghekhot

• “jung” in Martalar, Umberto Martello, Bellotto, Alfonso (1974) Dizionario della lingua Cimbra dei Sette Communi vicentini, 1st edition, Roana, Italy: Instituto di Cultura Cimbra A. Dal Pozzo

From Middle High German junc, from Old High German jung, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁n̥ḱós. Compare Dutch jong, English young, Danish ung.

• IPA^(key): /jʊŋ(k)/

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jung (strong nominative masculine singular junger, comparative jünger, superlative am jüngsten)

1. young

   Antonym: alt

   Der Junge ist jung. ― The boy is young.

• Colloquial, the neuter can also be junget besides junges, especially in Berlinian and Ruhrpottisch.

• Junge
• Jünger
• Jungfer

• “jung” in Duden online
• “jung” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

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jung

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• Hyphenation: jung

Inherited from Malay jong, from possibly either:

• Javanese ꦗꦺꦴꦁ (jong, “ship”), probably ultimately from Proto-Mon-Khmer *d₂luuŋ ~ *d₂luŋ ~ *d₂luəŋ ~ *d₂ləŋ (“boat”)
• Hokkien 船 (chûn, “ship; watercraft; vessel”) or Teochew 船 (zung⁵, “ship; watercraft; vessel”)

See also cunia.

jung (plural jung-jung)

1. junk: a Chinese sailing vessel

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jung (plural jung-jung)

1. (history) a unit of land area measurement equals 28,386 m² or four bau

• “jung” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *-roŋ, from Chinese 龍 (OC *-roŋ) (B-S). Cognate with White Hmong zaj and Western Xiangxi Miao ronf.

jung 

1. dragon

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *yuu, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *b-yuw (“rat, rabbit, hare”). Doublet of bäjö. Cognates include Burmese ယုန် (yun) and S'gaw Karen ယုၢ် (yu̱).

• IPA^(key): /jũ˩/

jung

1. rabbit

• K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin‎, Payap University, page 45

From Middle Low German junc, from Old Saxon jung, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁n̥ḱós. Compare German jung, Dutch jong, English young, Danish ung.

• IPA^(key): /jʊŋk/

jung (comparative jünger, superlative jüngst)

1. young

jung

1. (chiefly Early Middle English) Alternative form of yong

From Middle High German junc, from Old High German jung, from Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁n̥ḱós. Cognate with German jung, English young.

jung

1. young

• Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter , Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

From Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂yuh₁n̥ḱós.

jung

1. young

• Middle High German: junc
  • Alemannic German: jung, jungu, jungà, junhs, jòng
  • Bavarian: junk

    Cimbrian: jung, djung, junk

    Mòcheno: jung

  • Central Franconian: jonk

    Hunsrik: jung

    Luxembourgish: jonk

  • German: jung
  • Pennsylvania German: jung
  • Vilamovian: jung
  • Yiddish: יונג (yung)

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 208. →ISBN

• giung

From Proto-West Germanic *jung, from Proto-Germanic *jungaz, contracted form of an earlier *juwungaz, from Proto-Indo-European *yuwn̥kós from *h₂yuh₁en-.

Cognate with Old Frisian jung, Old English ġeong, Dutch jong, Middle High German junc (German jung), Old Norse ungr (Swedish ung), Gothic 𐌾𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍃 (juggs); and with Latin iuvencus (“young bull”), Old Irish oac (“young”), Russian юный (junyj, “youthful”).

• IPA^(key): /junɡ/

jung (comparative jungoro, superlative jungost)

1. young

• Middle Low German: junk
  • Low German: jung
  • → Polabian: jungĕ

• Köbler, Gerhard, Altsächsisches Wörterbuch (5th edition 2014)

From Middle High German junc, from Old High German jung.

Cognate with Old Frisian jung, Old English ġeong, Dutch jong, Old High German jung (German jung), Old Norse ungr (Swedish ung), Gothic 𐌾𐌿𐌲𐌲𐍃 (juggs); and with Latin iuvencus (“young bull”), Old Irish oac (“young”), Russian юный (junyj, “youthful”).

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jung

1. young

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