tún

See also: Appendix:Variations of "tun"

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse tún, from Proto-Germanic *tūną, from Gaulish *dunum, *dūnom, from Proto-Celtic *dūnom, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to finish, come full circle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰʉuːn/
• Rhymes: -ʉuːn

Noun

tún n (genitive singular túns, plural tún)

1. forecourt (e.g. asphalted), way between houses, street in a Faroese village

Declension

n3	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tún	túnið	tún	túnini
accusative	tún	túnið	tún	túnini
dative	túni	túninum	túnum	túnunum
genitive	túns	túnsins	túna	túnanna

Derived terms

• fortún (“footpath”)
• hátún (“terrace”)

Hokkien

For pronunciation and definitions of tún – see 囤 (“to store up; to hoard”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 囤).

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse tún, from Proto-Germanic *tūną, from Gaulish *dunum, *dūnom, from Proto-Celtic *dūnom, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to finish, come full circle”). Cognate with Danish tun (“enclosed area”), Norwegian Nynorsk tun (“farmstead; courtyard”), English town, German Zaun (“fence”), Dutch tuin (“garden”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tʰuːn/
• Rhymes: -uːn

Noun

tún n (genitive singular túns, nominative plural tún)

1. hayfield

Declension

Declension of tún (neuter)

	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tún	túnið	tún	túnin
accusative	tún	túnið	tún	túnin
dative	túni	túninu	túnum	túnunum
genitive	túns	túnsins	túna	túnanna

Derived terms

• túnfiskur
• túnfífill
• túnsúra
• túnvingull

Karakalpak

Alternative forms

• tu'n (obsolete)

Noun

tún

1. night

Mandarin

Romanization

tún (tun², Zhuyin ㄊㄨㄣˊ)

1. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 回
2. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 坉
3. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 屯
4. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 忳
5. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 敤
6. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 沉
7. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 燆 / 𮳧
8. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 穻
9. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 紓 / 纾
10. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 纫
11. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 肪
12. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 臀
13. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 臋
14. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 芚
15. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 訰 / 𰵍
16. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 豘
17. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 豚
18. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 軘 / 𰹸
19. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 逐
20. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 霕
21. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 飩 / 饨
22. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 魨 / 鲀
23. Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鲀

Old Norse

FWOTD – 14 May 2014

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tūną (“fence, enclosure”), from Gaulish *dūnon, from Proto-Celtic *dūnom (“stronghold”). Cognate with Old English tūn, Old Frisian tūn, Old Saxon tūn, Old High German zūn. See also Proto-Slavic *tynъ (“fence”), which is a borrowing from the Proto-Germanic word. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to finish, come full circle”).

Pronunciation

• (12th century Icelandic) IPA^(key): /ˈtũːn/

Noun

tún n (genitive túns, plural tún)

1. a hedged plot, enclosure, courtyard, homestead
   • Sigurðarkviða Fáfnisbana III, verse 29, lines 7-8, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 147:

     […] ok gullu víð / gæss í túni.

     […] and in the court / the geese loudly screamed.

2. a field or meadow around the dwelling
   • Saga Sigurðar Jórsalafara 13, in 1832, R. Rask, Fornmanna sögur, Volume VII. Copenhagen, page 97:

     […] sem eitt tún vítt vel ok kringlótt, […]

     […] as a broad and round-shaped field, […]

Declension

Declension of tún (strong a-stem)

neuter	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tún	túnit	tún	túnin
accusative	tún	túnit	tún	túnin
dative	túni	túninu	túnum	túnunum
genitive	túns	túnsins	túna	túnanna

Derived terms

• muntún (“breast”)
• reikartún (“head”)
• Tuna (“placename designating a shared or major enclosure”)
• túnannir (“haymaking in the home-field”)
• túnbrekka (“edge of the home-field”)
• túngarðr (“fence of the home-field”)
• túngǫltr (“home-field boar”)
• túnhlið (“court-gate”)
• túnriða (“witch, ghost”)
• túnsvið (“sapace of home-field”)
• túnsvín (“home-field boar”)
• túnvǫllr (“strip of home-field”)

Descendants

• Icelandic: tún
• Faroese: tún
• Norwegian Nynorsk: tun, Tune; (dialectal) ton
• Swedish: tun, -tuna, Tuna
• Danish: tun, Tune
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tun, Tune

Further reading

• Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “tún”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 644
• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “tún”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 444; also available at the Internet Archive
• Per Vikstrand & al. (2023), "Tuna Revisited", Research Projects of the Dept. of Archaeology at the University of Uppsala.

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian tūn, from Proto-West Germanic *tūn, from Proto-Germanic *tūną. Cognate to Dutch tuin, English town, German Zaun.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tyn/

Noun

tún c or n (plural tunen, diminutive túntsje)

1. garden

Derived terms

• dieretún
• eftertún
• foartún
• moestún