zun
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zun
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Etymology 1 edit
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zun (plural zuns)
- (nonstandard, British) Pronunciation spelling of sun.
- 1850, James Orchard Halliwell, A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs, and Ancient Customs, from the Fourteenth Century:
- Zome woys avore the zun is down,
So long’s the sky is clear;
- 1869, James Jennings, The Dialect of the West of England, particularly Somersetshire:
- GOOD bwye ta thee Cot! whaur tha dâs o’ my childhood
Glaw’d bright as tha zun in a mornin o’ mâ;
Etymology 2 edit
Romanized from the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of Mandarin 樽 (zūn).
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zun (plural zuns or zun)
- A type of Chinese ritual bronze or ceramic wine vessel with a round or square vase-like form, sometimes in the shape of an animal.
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Etymology edit
From Middle High German sun, from Old High German sunu, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz (“son”). Cognate with German Sohn, Dutch zoon, English son, Icelandic sonur.
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zun m (plural zünne)
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Declension of zun – 1st declension
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- Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Luserna / Lusérn: Le nostre parole / Ünsarne börtar / Unsere Wörter [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien
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- ğun (alternative orthography)
Etymology edit
From a Vulgar Latin derivative of Latin jejūnus, from ieiūnus.
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zun
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zun (+ optional adjective(s) ending with -en + plural noun)
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zun
Jingpho edit
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Borrowed from Burmese ဇွန်း (jwan:).
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zun
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zun
- Nonstandard spelling of zūn.
- Nonstandard spelling of zǔn.
- Nonstandard spelling of zùn.
Usage notes edit
- Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.
Old High German edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *tūn, from Proto-Germanic *tūną.
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zūn ?
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Audio (file)
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zun m
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zun f