Talk:dune

Ethymology

Some 400,000 hits are googled for "sand dune." So a dune is not necessarily of sand but any obtuse or thin hill or ridge such as sand dunes. English, French, German, Italian, Romanian, and even Finnish and Korean words strikingly sound similar to one another.

The English/German words, dune/Düne, thin/dünn, dun, down, town, etc. appear to share the same ethymology, which may be akin to Korean dun, dundek, dudeng, duduk "obtuse hill."

Furthermore, the English/German words dike/Deich, dough/Teig, thick/dick, etc. may be akin to Korean duk "dike" as well as Greek teichos "wall."

Meanwhile, the English word town is said to come from OE. tūn "enclosure, village" akin to OHG. zūn "enclosure" and OIr. dūn "fortress." --KYPark 05:48, 29 May 2005 (UTC)