tún

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”).

tún n (genitive singular túns, plural tún)

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

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

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”).

• IPA^(key): /tʰuːn/
• Rhymes: -uːn

tún n (genitive singular túns, nominative plural tún)

1. hayfield

• túnfiskur
• túnfífill
• túnsúra
• túnvingull

tún (Zhuyin ㄊㄨㄣˊ)

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

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”).

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

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, […]

• tún in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, R. Cleasby and G. Vigfússon, Clarendon Press, 1874, at Internet Archive.
• tún in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, G. T. Zoëga, Clarendon Press, 1910, at Internet Archive.