Translingual edit

Symbol edit

mun

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Munda languages.

English edit

 
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Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /mʌn/
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ʌn

Etymology 1 edit

From Middle English mone (shall, must), from Old Norse munu (shall, must), from Proto-Germanic *munaną.[1]

Alternative forms edit

Verb edit

mun

  1. (dialect, Northern English, modal auxiliary, defective) Must.
    • 1894, M E Francis, In a North Country Village:
      Ye mun ha' done wi' all that foolery — ye're gettin' a man now, an' ye mun give over that nonsense.

References edit

Etymology 2 edit

From Old Norse muðr, munnr, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ment-; compare mouth.

Noun edit

mun (plural muns)

  1. (obsolete, dialect) The mouth, jaw.
    • 1847, J O Halliwell, Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial words:
      A common cry at Coventry on Good Friday is: One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns, / Butter them and sugar them and put them in your muns.

Etymology 3 edit

Noun edit

mun

  1. (UK, South Africa, dialectal) man

Pronoun edit

mun

  1. (UK, dialect, Devon, Somerset, obsolete) them[1]
    • 1746, Exmoor Courtship[2], published 1879, page 50:
      tha wut spudlee out the Yemors, and screedle over mun

References edit

  1. ^ Wright, Joseph (1903) The English Dialect Dictionary[1], volume 4, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 204

Etymology 4 edit

Clipping of mundane.

Noun edit

mun (plural muns)

  1. (roleplaying games, Internet slang) The person who roleplays a character in a role-playing game, especially an online play-by-post one.
    • 1997 October 29, Jade [username], “Re: Male dragon in need of mate ^_^”, in alt.fan.dragons[3] (Usenet):
      Jade grabs a handful of brownies and nibbles on then,[sic] trying to keep her mun from reaching right to the screen to get some []
    • 1999 November 4, Milelarau [username], “Re: Roleplaying”, in alt.games.everquest[4] (Usenet):
      Wait a sec.... You mean.. this is a GAME??
      And here I thought that nine tae five job my mun goes to everyday[sic] was a game and Norrath was my home..
    • 2001 December 31, JamesStein, “Successfully Powering Down a Campaign”, in rec.games.frp.dnd[5] (Usenet):
      Any suggestions on how to successfully turn this into a good SL, which will bring the characters back into the range of normalcy, without leaving the muns feeling deprived of everything their characters earned?
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:mun.
Synonyms edit

Anagrams edit

Dalmatian edit

Etymology edit

From Latin manus.

Noun edit

mun f

  1. (anatomy) hand

Finnish edit

Pronoun edit

mun

  1. (colloquial) genitive of
  2. (dialectal) accusative of

See also edit

Gothic edit

Romanization edit

mun

  1. Romanization of 𐌼𐌿𐌽

Icelandic edit

Verb edit

mun

  1. singular first/third-person present indicative of munu

Inari Sami edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Samic *monë.

Pronunciation edit

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Pronoun edit

mun (genitive muu)

  1. I

See also edit

Inari Sami personal pronouns
singular dual plural
1st person mun muoi mij
2nd person tun tuoi tij
3rd person sun suoi sij

Further reading edit

  • mun in Marja-Liisa Olthuis, Taarna Valtonen, Miina Seurujärvi and Trond Trosterud (2015–2022) Nettidigisäänih Anarâškiela-suomakielâ-anarâškielâ sänikirje[6], Tromsø: UiT
  • Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[7], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Irish edit

Contraction edit

mun

  1. Contraction of um + an.

Mutation edit

Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
mun mhun not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Further reading edit

Iu Mien edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *ʔmun (illness, pain). Cognate with White Hmong mob and Western Xiangxi Miao [Fenghuang] mb.

Noun edit

mun 

  1. pain

Kemi Sami edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Samic *monë.

Compare Inari Sami mun and Skolt Sami mon.

Pronoun edit

mun (genitive mu)

  1. I
    • 1889, A. Genetz, Journal de la Société finno-ougrienne (VII), Helsinki: Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seuran Kirjapainossa, page 116:
      Jos mun tåckå dzim kirdadzim Såäſt worodze Såäſt.
      If only I could fly with wings, crow's wings

Mangas edit

Pronunciation edit

Pronoun edit

mun

  1. first person plural personal pronoun, we

References edit

  • Blench, Robert; Bulkaam, Michael (2021) An Introduction to Mantsi, a South Bauchi language of Central Nigeria. University of Cambridge.

Middle English edit

Verb edit

mun

  1. Alternative form of mone (shall)

Northern Sami edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Samic *monë.

Pronunciation edit

  • (Kautokeino) IPA(key): /ˈmun/

Pronoun edit

mun

  1. I

Inflection edit

Inflection of mun (irregular)
Nominative mun, mon
Genitive
Nominative mun, mon
Genitive
Accusative
Illative munnje
Locative mūs
Comitative muinna
Essive mūnin

See also edit

Personal pronouns
singular dual plural
1st person mun moai mii
2nd person don doai dii
3rd person son soai sii

Further reading edit

  • Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages[8], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Etymology 1 edit

Verb edit

mun

  1. present tense of muna

Etymology 2 edit

From Old Norse munr, from Proto-Germanic *muniz.

Noun edit

mun m (plural munen)

  1. (pre-1938) alternative form of mon

Old Norse edit

Verb edit

mun

  1. inflection of munu:
    1. first/second/third-person singular present active indicative
    2. second-person singular present active imperative

Polish edit

Etymology edit

Perhaps from Vietnamese (cánh) mỏng.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

mun m inan (indeclinable)

  1. (colloquial) Mun mushroom

Further reading edit

  • mun in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • mun in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Scots edit

Verb edit

mun

  1. (modal auxiliary, defective) Alternative form of maun
    • 1894, M E Francis, In a North Country Village:
      Ye mun ha' done wi' all that foolery — ye're gettin' a man now, an' ye mun give over that nonsense.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Scottish Gaelic edit

Etymology edit

mu + an.

Pronunciation edit

Preposition edit

mun

  1. about the, about their, about my, about whom, about which
  2. around the, around their, around my, around whom, around which
  3. concerning the, concerning their, concerning my, concerning whom, concerning which

Usage notes edit

  • Considered somewhat high register in the sense of "about, concerning"; mu dheidhinn is more commonly used in normal register.

See also edit

Further reading edit

  • Edward Dwelly (1911), “mun”, in Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan [The Illustrated Gaelic–English Dictionary], 10th edition, Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN

Sranan Tongo edit

Etymology edit

From English moon.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

mun

  1. moon
  2. month

Related terms edit

Sumerian edit

Romanization edit

mun

  1. Romanization of 𒁵 (mun)

Swedish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Swedish munder, from Old Norse muðr, munnr, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ment-.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

mun c

  1. (anatomy) a mouth
    morgonstund har guld i mun
    the morning hour has gold in its mouth (the early bird catches the worm)
    många munnar att mätta
    many mouths to feed

Declension edit

Declension of mun 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative mun munnen munnar munnarna
Genitive muns munnens munnars munnarnas

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Tarifit edit

Etymology edit

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Pronunciation edit

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Verb edit

mun (Tifinagh spelling ⵎⵓⵏ)

  1. (intransitive) to accompany, to keep company
  2. (intransitive) to gather, to group, to assemble
  3. (intransitive) to escort

Conjugation edit

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Derived terms edit

  • Verbal noun: amuni (uniting, gathering, meeting)
  • Causative: smun (to gather, to unite)
  • amuni (comrade)
  • tmunet (company, association)
  • rmunet (supplies; salary)

Tok Pisin edit

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Etymology edit

From English moon.

Noun edit

mun

  1. moon
    • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 1:15:
      God i mekim kamap tupela bikpela lait. Bikpela em san bilong givim lait long de, na liklik em mun bilong givim lait long nait. Na God i mekim kamap ol sta tu.
      →New International Version translation
  2. month

Torres Strait Creole edit

Etymology edit

From English moon.

Noun edit

mun

  1. moon

Vietnamese edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Vietic *ɓuːɲ (ashes). Cognate with Muong bunh.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

mun (, )

  1. (North Central Vietnam) ashes
    Synonyms: tro, gio
  2. (botany) ebony

Adjective edit

mun (, )

  1. (of a cat, otherwise rare) black
    Synonym: đen

See also edit

Volapük edit

Noun edit

mun (nominative plural muns)

  1. moon (planetary satellite)

Declension edit