dun

Pronunciation

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Etymology 1
From, , from , from , from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Alternative etymology derives the Old English word from (compare 🇨🇬), from  (compare 🇨🇬 and ), from  (compare 🇨🇬). More at dusk.

Noun

 * 1) A brownish grey colour.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: сиво-кафяв
 * Czech: šedohnědá barva
 * Dutch:, grijs-bruin
 * Finnish:
 * French: grisâtre
 * Georgian: მონაცრისფრო-ყვითელი ფერი
 * German: Graubraun
 * Greek: καστανόφαιο
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic: grámórautt
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish:
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese: 焦げ茶色
 * Norwegian: gråbrunt
 * Occitan: brunèl
 * Persian:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Serbo-Croatian: sivosmeđ
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:, gråbrunt
 * Turkish:

Adjective

 * 1) Of a brownish grey colour.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: сиво-кафяв
 * Czech: šedohnědý,
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: brun gris
 * Georgian: მონაცრისფრო-ყვითელი
 * German:, falb
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: riabhach
 * Italian:
 * Norwegian: gråbrun
 * Ottoman Turkish: قولا
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic: odhar
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:

Etymology 2

 * perhaps a variant of . Several sources suggest origin from Joe Dun, the name of a bailiff known for arresting debtors, but this is controversial.

Noun

 * 1)  A collector of debts, especially one who is insistent and demanding.
 * 2) An urgent request or demand of payment.
 * 1) An urgent request or demand of payment.
 * 1) An urgent request or demand of payment.
 * 1) An urgent request or demand of payment.
 * 1) An urgent request or demand of payment.

Translations

 * Finnish: ,

Verb

 * 1)  To ask or beset a debtor for payment.
 * 2) * Folio Society 1973, p. 577:
 * "en"
 * "en"

- Of all he had received from Lady Bellaston, not above five guineas remained and that very morning he had been dunned by a tradesman for twice that sum.


 * 1)  To harass by continually repeating e.g. a request.

Translations

 * Czech: upomínat,, vymáhat zaplacení
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Portuguese:


 * Finnish: ,
 * Polish: przymawiać się, przymówić się

Etymology 3

 * likely from the color.

Noun

 * 1)  A newly hatched, immature mayfly; a mayfly subimago.
 * 2)  A  made to resemble the mayfly subimago.
 * 1)  A  made to resemble the mayfly subimago.

Translations

 * Finnish: esiaikuinen, subimago

Etymology 4
From or, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬. .

Noun

 * 1)  An ancient or medieval fortification; especially a hill-fort in Scotland or Ireland.
 * 2)  A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch.
 * 1)  A structure in the Orkney or Shetland islands or in Scotland consisting of a roundhouse surrounded by a circular wall; a broch.

Etymology 5
See.

Verb

 * Now, ya dun it!
 * Now, ya dun it!

Etymology 6
Likely from the color of fish so prepared.

Verb

 * 1)  To cure, as codfish, by laying them, after salting, in a pile in a dark place, covered with saltgrass or a similar substance.

Etymology 7
See.

Noun

 * 1) A mound or small hill.

Etymology 8
Imitative.

Verb

 * 1) to eat

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) down (soft, immature feathers)

Etymology 1
From, from , from , from. Cognate with English (Compare West-Flemish thinne).

Adjective

 * 1) thin, slender
 * 2) sparse
 * 3)  runny

Etymology
From +.

Contraction

 * 1)  From ; of

Etymology
.

Adjective

 * 1)  drunk

Etymology
, from, from , from , from , ultimately from.

Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  will; to be going (to do something);
 * 2)  to be;
 * 3)  to put, to place, to add
 * 4)  to do
 * 1)  to put, to place, to add
 * 2)  to do
 * 1)  to do
 * 1)  to do

Etymology
From, from (compare 🇨🇬).

Noun

 * 1) leaf

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) down

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) down

Etymology
From, , possibly from , from ; or alternatively a late borrowing from from the same Proto-Indo-European source.

Noun

 * 1) hill, mountain

Etymology
From.

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) down

Etymology
Borrowed from and.

Noun

 * 1) island

Etymology 1
Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Likely from the same root as and the /y/ alternatives.

Verb

 * 1) to be sweet, to be pleasant

Usage notes

 * it induces a high tone syllable when followed by another verb, becoming dùn-ún and subcategorizes an embedded clause.

Synonyms
Yoruba varieties (to be sweet)

Verb

 * 1) to hurt, to be painful (physically)
 * 2) to be painful (mentally)
 * 1) to be painful (mentally)

Usage notes

 * dun before a direct object

Verb

 * 1)  to emit a sound