Noun: dun
Gender:
Nominative
| Singular | dūn |
| Plural | dūna; dūne |
Accusative
| Singular | dūne |
| Plural | dūna; dūne |
Sample Sentences
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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.")
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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