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”).

• IPA^(key): /tʰʉuːn/
• Rhymes: -ʉuːn

tún n (genitive singular túns, plural tún)

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

Declension of tún
n3	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	tún	túnið	tún	túnini
accusative	tún	túnið	tún	túnini
dative	túni	túninum	túnum	túnunum
genitive	túns	túnsins	túna	túnanna

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

For pronunciation and definitions of tún – see 囤 (“to store up; to hoard”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 囤).

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

• tu'n (obsolete)

tún

1. night

tún (tun², Zhuyin ㄊㄨㄣˊ)

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

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.
• Per Vikstrand & al. (2023), "Tuna Revisited", Research Projects of the Dept. of Archaeology at the University of Uppsala.

From Old Frisian tūn, from Proto-West Germanic *tūn, from Proto-Germanic *tūną. Cognate to Dutch tuin, English town, German Zaun.

• IPA^(key): /tyn/

tún c or n (plural tunen, diminutive túntsje)

1. garden

• dieretún
• eftertún
• foartún
• moestún