zun

zun (plural zuns)

1. (nonstandard, Britain, dialectal) 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;

• sun, sunn

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.

zun m (plural zünne)

1. (Sette Comuni) son

• “zun” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

• ğun (alternative orthography)

From a Vulgar Latin derivative of Latin jejūnus, from ieiūnus.

zun

1. fasting
2. (figuratively) lacking

• dizun
• zunâ

• IPA^(key): /tsʊn/

zun (+ optional adjective(s) ending with -en + plural noun)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) to or for the (contraction of zu + den)

zun

1. Nonstandard spelling of zūn.
2. Nonstandard spelling of zǔn.
3. Nonstandard spelling of zùn.

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

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zun m

1. son

zun f

1. sun