kunn

Central Franconian

Alternative forms

• kuun, konn (variants)
• kumme (some contemporary Ripuarian dialects, including Kölsch)
• komme (Moselle Franconian, other contemporary Ripuarian dialects)

Etymology

From Middle High German *kūn, contracted infinitive of queman (like hān of haben, lān of lāzen, etc.), from Old High German kweman, from Proto-West Germanic *kweman, from Proto-Germanic *kwemaną, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷémt.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kun/

Verb

kunn (third-person singular present kütt, past tense kom, past participle kunn or jekunn)

1. (Ripuarian, archaic in most areas) to come

   Ich kunn jrad vom Suppermaat.

   I’m just coming back from the supermarket.

Usage notes

• Most contemporary dialects retain the contracted forms in the 2nd persons singular and plural and in the 3rd person singular, whereas the three other persons, the infinitive, and the past participle have been replaced with forms containing -m- under Standard German influence.

Estonian

Etymology

Clipping of kuningas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkunʲː/, [ˈkunʲː]
• Rhymes: -unʲː
• Hyphenation: kunn

Noun

kunn (genitive kunni, partitive kunni)

1. (colloquial) Synonym of kuningas

Declension

Declension of kunn (ÕS type 22e/riik, length gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		kunn	kunnid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	kunni
genitive			kunnide
partitive		kunni	kunne kunnisid
illative		kunni kunnisse	kunnidesse kunnesse
inessive		kunnis	kunnides kunnes
elative		kunnist	kunnidest kunnest
allative		kunnile	kunnidele kunnele
adessive		kunnil	kunnidel kunnel
ablative		kunnilt	kunnidelt kunnelt
translative		kunniks	kunnideks kunneks
terminative		kunnini	kunnideni
essive		kunnina	kunnidena
abessive		kunnita	kunnideta
comitative		kunniga	kunnidega

References

• kunn in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)
• “kunn”, in [EKSS] Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat [Descriptive Dictionary of the Estonian Language] (in Estonian) (online version), Tallinn: Eesti Keele Sihtasutus (Estonian Language Foundation), 2009

Low German

Verb

kunn

1. first-person singular past of könen

Ter Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *kunë.

Noun

kunn

1. ash (residue from burning)

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎^[1], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland