dúnn
Icelandic edit
Etymology edit
From Old Norse dúnn, from Proto-Germanic *dūnaz (“down”), which is related to *dauniz (“(pleasant) smell”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰowh₂-nis, from the root *dʰewh₂-.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dúnn m (genitive singular dúns, no plural)
- down (immature feathers on young birds)
Declension edit
declension of dúnn
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Old Irish edit
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Pronoun edit
dúnn
- first-person plural of do: to us, for us
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 15c23
- Hóre is cuci rigmi, is ferr dún placere illi.
- Since it is to him we will go, it is better for us to please him.
- c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 53b17
- ocu·bether .i. comaicsigfid Día dún tri sodin
- shall be touched, i.e. God will bring [it] near to us through that
- c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 15c23