Tuun

See also: tuun and Tüün

German Low German

Etymology

From Middle Low German tûn, from Old Saxon tūn, from Proto-West Germanic *tūn. Cognate with German Zaun (“fence”).

Noun

Tuun m (plural Tuuns or Tüün)

1. (in several dialects, including Low Prussian) fence

References

• Der neue SASS: Plattdeutsches Wörterbuch, Plattdeutsch - Hochdeutsch, Hochdeutsch - Plattdeutsch. Plattdeutsche Rechtschreibung, sixth revised edition (2011, →ISBN, Wachholtz Verlag, Neumünster)

Limburgish

Alternative forms

• toen (Veldeke spelling)
• Tuune (Eupen, Selfkant)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *tūn, from Proto-Germanic *tūną, from Proto-Celtic *dūnom (“stronghold, rampart”) (likely through Gaulish dūnom), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dewh₂- or *dʰewh₂-. Compare German Zaun, German Low German Tuun, Luxembourgish Zonk, Dutch tuin, English town.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tuːn/
• Rhymes: -uːn

Noun

Tuun m (plural Tüün, diminutive Tüünke or Tünke) (German-based spelling, Rheinische Dokumenta spelling)

1. fence

   Eng gruete Vrou ess eng Lädder enn et Huus änd eng koh Vrou engen Tuun dröm.

   A big woman is like a ladder to a house and an angry woman is like a fence around a house.

2. fenced off area, enclosed space
3. ground-ivy