dun – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of dun

Noun: dun
Gender:

Nominative

Singulardūn
Pluraldūna; dūne

Genitive

Singulardūne
Pluraldūna

Dative

Singulardūne
Pluraldūnum

Accusative

Singulardūne
Pluraldūna; dūne

Sample Sentences

  • Old English Heptateuch, Genesis 22:2 ("Take your only-begotten son Isaac, whom you love, and quickly go to the land of Visionis, and sacrifice him there upon a mountain.")

Nouns inflected like dun

dun, run, hellrun, winterdun,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *dūnu, *dūnā (“sand dune”), possibly from Proto-Germanic *dūnaz (“heap, pile”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, fume, raise dust”); or alternatively a late borrowing from Proto-Celtic *dūnom from the same Proto-Indo-European source.

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