tún

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”).

• IPA^(key): /tʰʉuːn/
• Rhymes: -ʉuːn

tún n (genitive singular túns, plural tún)

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

• fortún (“footpath”)
• hátún (“terrace”)

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”).

• IPA^(key): /tʰuːn/
• Rhymes: -uːn

tún n (genitive singular túns, nominative plural tún)

1. hayfield

• túnfiskur
• túnfífill
• túnsúra
• túnvingull

• tu'n (obsolete)

tún

1. night

tún (tun², Zhuyin ㄊㄨㄣˊ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 回
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 坉
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 屯
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 忳
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 敤
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 沉
7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 燆／𮳧
8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 穻
9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 紓／纾
10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 纫
11. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 肪
12. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 臀
13. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 臋
14. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 芚
15. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 訰／𰵍
16. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 豘
17. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 豚
18. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 軘／𰹸
19. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 逐
20. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 霕
21. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 飩／饨
22. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 魨／鲀
23. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鲀

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”).

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

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, […]

• 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.

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

• IPA^(key): /tyn/

tún c or n (plural tunen, diminutive túntsje)

1. garden

• dieretún
• eftertún
• foartún
• moestún