mund

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See also: Mund and mund'

English

Etymology

From Middle English and Old English mund, from Proto-Germanic *mundō (hand, protection, security).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mʊnd/, /mʌnd/
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  • Rhymes: -ʊnd, -ʌnd

Noun

mund (countable and uncountable, plural munds)

  1. (obsolete) A hand.
  2. (obsolete) Security, granted by a king or earl, the violation of which was punished by a fine (a mundbyrd).
  3. (obsolete) Protection; guardianship.

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Albanian

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Uncertain: Possibly:

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Verb

mund (aorist munda, participle mundur)

  1. (intransitive) can, to be able to; to have the opportunity, power or ability
  2. followed by
    1. grammatical particle used for conjunctive forms
      A mund të më tregoni shtëpinë?
      Could you show me the house?
    2. (third person) could be possible; possibly, maybe, perhaps (used as a semi-auxiliary verb)
  3. to beat, win over, conquer
  4. (transitive) to defeat, beat; to emerge victorious (in a match, battle)
  5. to survive, get over, beat (a fear, illness, disease)
  6. (figurative, third person) take over (with short pronoun forms)
    Më mundi gjumi.
    The sleep took over me
  7. (mediopassive) See mundem.
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References

  1. ^ Çabej, E. (1986) Studime gjuhësore (in Albanian), volume I, Prishtinë: Rilindja, pages 357–358
  2. ^ Demiraj, B. (1997) “mund”, in Albanische Etymologien: Untersuchungen zum albanischen Erbwortschatz [Albanian Etymologies: ] (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 7)‎ (in German), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi
  3. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “mund”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, pages 277–278
  4. ^ Meyer, G. (1891) “mund”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der albanesischen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the Albanian Language] (in German), Strasbourg: Karl J. Trübner, →DOI, page 291
  5. ^ Jokl, Norbert (1911) Studien zur albanesischen Etymologie und Wortbildung (Sitzungsberichte der Philosophisch-Historischen Klasse der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften; 168) (in German), Vienna: A. Hölder, page 58
  6. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “3. men”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 727
  7. ^ Werner Winter (1965) Evidence for Laryngeals, The Hague, Mouton, →OCLC, page 138

Etymology 2

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *mn̥(s)-dʰh₁-. Compare Old Norse munda (aim, strive), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍉𐌽 (mundōn, look up), Old High German muntar (keen, eager), Ancient Greek μανθάνω (manthánō, learn), Lithuanian mañdras (alert, awake, smart, minxish).

Alternative forms

Noun

mund m (definite mundi)

  1. agony, toil, great effort
  2. arduous and hard work (that pays off)
  3. tribulation, cause of trouble or suffer
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Further reading

  • mund”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

Danish

mund

Etymology

From Old Norse muðr, munnr, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz, cognate with English mouth, German Mund.

Pronunciation

Noun

mund c (singular definite munden, plural indefinite munde)

  1. mouth (the opening of an animal through which food is ingested)

Declension

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See also

Verb

mund

  1. imperative of munde

Icelandic

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old Norse mund, from Proto-Germanic *mundō.

Noun

mund f (genitive singular mundar, nominative plural mundir)

  1. (poetic) hand
Declension
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Etymology 2

Related to Old Norse munda (to aim, to strive), Old High German muntar (keen, eager), from Proto-Germanic *mundraz (alert).

Noun

mund f (genitive singular mundar, nominative plural mundir) or mund n (genitive singular munds, nominative plural mund)

  1. Used only in set phrases.
Declension

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Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old English mund, from Proto-Germanic *mundō.

Pronunciation

Noun

mund (plural moundes or munden)

  1. Might, ability, or skill.
  2. Magnitude, greatness, utility, or usefulness.
  3. (rare) Protection, guarding, defence
  4. (rare) A hand, especially as a measurement.
  5. (rare) A band of warriors or fighters.

Descendants

  • English: mound, mund
  • Scots: moond

References

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mundō (hand, guard, security).

Cognate with Old Frisian mund m (guardian), Old Norse mund-r m (noun, literally sum paid by a bridegroom for his bride), Old Saxon mund (hand, noun), Old High German munt m (protector).

Pronunciation

Noun

mund f (nominative plural munda or munde)

  1. (poetic) hand, palm as a measure of length. In this meaning is not used later than OE period .
  2. trust, security, protection
  3. protector, guardian

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Old French

Etymology

From Latin mundus.

Noun

mund oblique singularm (oblique plural munz or muntz, nominative singular munz or muntz, nominative plural mund)

  1. the world

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *munþ.

Noun

mund m

  1. (anatomy) mouth

Declension

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mundō (hand). Further cognates see there.

Noun

mund f

  1. hand

Descendants

References

  • mund”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Romansch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Latin mundus.

Noun

mund m (plural munds)

  1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) world

Swedish

Noun

mund c

  1. (archaic) a mouth
    Synonym: mun

Declension

Declension of mund 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative mund munden mundar mundarna
Genitive munds mundens mundars mundarnas

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