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Central Franconian
- kuun, konn (variants)
- kumme (some contemporary Ripuarian dialects, including Kölsch)
- komme (Moselle Franconian, other contemporary Ripuarian dialects)
Etymology
From Middle High German *kūn, contracted infinitive of queman (like hān of haben, lān of lāzen, etc.), from Old High German kweman, from Proto-West Germanic *kweman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémt.
Pronunciation
Verb
kunn (third-person singular present kütt, past tense kom, past participle kunn or jekunn)
- (Ripuarian, archaic in most areas) to come
Ich kunn jrad vom Suppermaat.- I’m just coming back from the supermarket.
Usage notes
- Most contemporary dialects retain the contracted forms in the 2nd persons singular and plural and in the 3rd person singular, whereas the three other persons, the infinitive, and the past participle have been replaced with forms containing -m- under Standard German influence.
Estonian
Etymology
Clipping of kuningas.
Pronunciation
Noun
kunn (genitive kunni, partitive kunni)
- (colloquial) Synonym of kuningas
Declension
References
- kunn in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
- “kunn”, in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009
Low German
Verb
kunn
- first-person singular past of könen
Ter Sami
Etymology
From Proto-Samic *kunë.
Noun
kunn
- ash (residue from burning)
Further reading
- Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland