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Faroese
Etymology
From Old Norse tún, from Proto-Germanic *tūną, from Gaulish *dunum, *dūnom, from Proto-Celtic *dūnom, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to finish, come full circle”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tún n (genitive singular túns, plural tún)
- forecourt (e.g. asphalted), way between houses, street in a Faroese village
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Hokkien
For pronunciation and definitions of tún – see 囤 (“to store up; to hoard”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 囤). |
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse tún, from Proto-Germanic *tūną, from Gaulish *dunum, *dūnom, from Proto-Celtic *dūnom, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to finish, come full circle”). Cognate with Danish tun (“enclosed area”), Norwegian Nynorsk tun (“farmstead; courtyard”), English town, German Zaun (“fence”), Dutch tuin (“garden”).
Pronunciation
Noun
tún n (genitive singular túns, nominative plural tún)
- hayfield
Declension
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Karakalpak
Noun
tún
- night
Mandarin
Romanization
tún (tun2, Zhuyin ㄊㄨㄣˊ)
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 回
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 坉
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 屯
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 忳
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 敤
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 沉
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 燆/
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 穻
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 紓/纾
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 纫
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 肪
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 臀
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 臋
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 芚
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 訰/𰵍
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 豘
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 豚
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 軘/𰹸
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 逐
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 霕
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 飩/饨
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 魨/鲀
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鲀
Old Norse
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *tūną (“fence, enclosure”), from Gaulish *dūnon, from Proto-Celtic *dūnom (“stronghold”). Cognate with Old English tūn, Old Frisian tūn, Old Saxon tūn, Old High German zūn. See also Proto-Slavic *tynъ (“fence”), which is a borrowing from the Proto-Germanic word. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to finish, come full circle”).
Pronunciation
- (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈtũːn/
Noun
tún n (genitive túns, plural tún)
- a hedged plot, enclosure, courtyard, homestead
- Sigurðarkviða Fáfnisbana III, verse 29, lines 7-8, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 147:
- ok gullu víð / gæss í túni.
- and in the court / the geese loudly screamed.
- a field or meadow around the dwelling
- Saga Sigurðar Jórsalafara 13, in 1832, R. Rask, Fornmanna sögur, Volume VII. Copenhagen, page 97:
- sem eitt tún vítt vel ok kringlótt,
- as a broad and round-shaped field,
Declension
Declension of tún (strong a-stem)
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Descendants
References
- tún in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
- tún in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.
- Per Vikstrand & al. (2023), "Tuna Revisited", Research Projects of the Dept. of Archaeology at the University of Uppsala.
West Frisian
Etymology
From Old Frisian tūn, from Proto-West Germanic *tūn, from Proto-Germanic *tūną. Cognate to Dutch tuin, English town, German Zaun.
Pronunciation
Noun
tún c or n (plural tunen, diminutive túntsje)
- garden
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