tún

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Faroese

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Etymology

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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).

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Noun

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tún n (genitive singular túns, plural tún)

  1. forecourt (e.g. asphalted), way between houses, street in a Faroese village

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Declension of tún
n3 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative tún túnið tún túnini
accusative tún túnið tún túnini
dative túni túninum túnum túnunum
genitive túns túnsins túna túnanna

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Hokkien

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For pronunciation and definitions of tún – see (“to store up; to hoard”).
(This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of ).

Icelandic

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Etymology

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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).

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Noun

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tún n (genitive singular túns, nominative plural tún)

  1. hayfield

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Karakalpak

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Noun

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tún

  1. night

Mandarin

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Romanization

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Old Norse

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Etymology

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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

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  • (12th century Icelandic) IPA(key): /ˈtũːn/

Noun

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tún n (genitive túns, plural tún)

  1. 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.
  2. 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, []

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Descendants

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  • Icelandic: tún
  • Faroese: tún
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: tun, Tune; (dialectal) ton
  • Swedish: tun, -tuna, Tuna
  • Danish: tun, Tune

References

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  • 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

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Etymology

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From Old Frisian tūn, from Proto-West Germanic *tūn, from Proto-Germanic *tūną. Cognate to Dutch tuin, English town, German Zaun.

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Noun

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tún c or n (plural tunen, diminutive túntsje)

  1. garden

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