mun

See also mún, and mủn

English

Etymology 1

From Old Norse man (“must, will”).

Alternative forms

• maun

Verb

mun

1. (dialect, Northern England, modal auxiliary, defective) Must.
   • 1894, M E Francis, In a North Country Village

     Ye mun ha' done wi' all that foolery — ye're gettin' a man now, an' ye mun give over that nonsense.

Etymology 2

Noun

mun (plural muns)

1. (obsolete, dialect) The mouth, jaw.
   • 1847, J O Halliwell, Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial words:

     A common cry at Coventry on Good Friday is: One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns, / Butter them and sugar them and put them in your muns.

Etymology 3

From mundane by shortening.

Noun

mun (plural muns)

1. (gaming) The person who roleplays a character in a role-playing game, especially an online play-by-post one.
   • 1997 29 October, Jade [username], “Re: Male dragon in need of mate ^_^”, alt.fan.dragons, Usenet:

     Jade grabs a handful of brownies and nibbles on then,^[sic] trying to keep her mun from reaching right to the screen to get some […]

   • 1999 4 November, Milelarau [username], “Re: Roleplaying”, alt.games.everquest, Usenet:

     Wait a sec.... You mean.. this is a GAME??
     And here I thought that nine tae five job my mun goes to everyday was a game and Norrath was my home..

   • 2001 31 December, JamesStein, “Sucessfully Powering Down a Campaign”, rec.games.frp.dnd, Usenet:

     Any suggestions on how to successfully turn this into a good SL, which will bring the characters back into the range of normalcy, without leaving the muns feeling deprived of everything their characters earned?

   • For more examples of usage of this term, see the citations page.

Synonyms

• roleplayer, RPer

Anagrams

• Num., num

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Akkala Sami

Pronoun

munˑ

1. I (first-person singular pronoun, essive)

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Dalmatian

Etymology

From Latin manus.

Noun

mun f

1. hand

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Finnish

Pronoun

mun

1. (colloquial) Genitive form of minä.

See also

• minun

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Gothic

Romanization

mun

1. See 𐌼𐌿𐌽

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Inari Sami

Pronoun

mun

1. (personal) I

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Lojban

Rafsi

mun

1. rafsi of smuni.

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Northern Sami

Alternative forms

• mon

Etymology

Compare Lule Sami mån and Southern Sami manne

Pronoun

mun

1. First-person singular: I

Inflection

declension of mun singular dual plural Nominative mun, mon moai mii Genitive mu munno min Accusative mu munno min Illative munnje munnuide midjiide Locative mus munnos mis Comitative muinna munnuin minguin Essive munin munnon minin

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Scots

Alternative forms

• maun

Verb

mun

1. (modal auxiliary, defective) Must.
   • 1894, M E Francis, In a North Country Village

     Ye mun ha' done wi' all that foolery — ye're gettin' a man now, an' ye mun give over that nonsense.

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Scottish Gaelic

Etymology

• mu + an

Preposition

mun

1. about the, about their, about my, about whom, about which
2. concerning the, concerning their, concerning my, concerning whom, concerning which

See also

• mu

References

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, ISBN 0 901771 92 9

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse muðr, munnr, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ment-.

Pronunciation

• audio

  (file)

Noun

mun c

1. (anatomy) a mouth

   morgonstund har guld i mun

   morning hour has gold in its mouth (meaning: the early bird catches the worm)

   många munnar att mätta

   many mouths to feed

Declension

Declension of mun

	singular		plural
Common	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	mun	munnen	munnar	munnarna
genitive	muns	munnens	munnars	munnarnas

Related terms

munart munblåst mundiarré munfull mungiga mungipa munharmonika munhuggande munhuggas munhuggning

munhygien munhåla munhäfta munkorg munlag munlås munläder munläsa mun-mot-mun-metoden munsbit

munskydd munskänk munspel munstycke munstyv munsår munta muntlig muntligen muntorrhet

muntur munvatten munvig munvinkel munväder

References

• mun in Svenska Akademiens Ordlista över svenska språket (13th ed., online)

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Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English moon

Noun

mun

1. moon
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Genesis 1:15 (translation here):

     God i mekim kamap tupela bikpela lait. Bikpela em san bilong givim lait long de, na liklik em mun bilong givim lait long nait. Na God i mekim kamap ol sta tu.

2. month

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Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English moon.

Noun

mun

1. moon

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Welsh

Noun

mun

1. (slang) equivalent to the man in English, as in you, you man, you bloke, dude, guy, mate