mund

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Old English mund, from Germanic. Cognate with German Mund, Munt ‘legal protection’.

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mʊnd/, /mʌnd/

[edit] Noun

Singular
mund

Plural
munds

mund (plural munds)

  1. (obsolete) A hand.
  2. Protection, guardianship.

[edit] Anagrams

  • Anagrams of dmnu
  • UNDM

[edit] Albanian

[edit] Noun

mund m

  1. trouble
  2. toil

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mund

  1. can
  2. to be able

[edit] Danish

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mund

[edit] Etymology

From Old Norse muðr, munnr.

[edit] Pronunciation

  • IPA: /mon/, [mɔnˀ]

[edit] Noun

mund c. (singular definite munden, plural indefinite munde)

  1. mouth (the opening of an animal through which food is ingested)

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[edit] Verb

mund

  1. Imperative of munde.

[edit] Icelandic

[edit] Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *man- (hand), which led to a Germanic base with a variety of meanings. Cognates include Old Frisian mund (guardian, guardianship)), Old Saxon mund (hand), Old High German munt (hand, protection), German Mund, Munt (legal power of protection), Icelandic mundur (a sum a bridegroom pays his bride). The IE root was also the source of Latin manus (hand), Albanian marr (turn).

[edit] Noun

mund f.

  1. hand

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[edit] Old English

[edit] Etymology

From the Indo-European root *man- ‘hand’, which led to a Germanic base with a variety of meanings. Cognates include Old Frisian mund ‘guardian, guardianship’, Old Saxon mund ‘hand’, Old High German munt ‘hand, protection’ (German Mund, Munt ‘legal power of protection’), Old Icelandic mund ("hand"), mundr ("sum a bridegroom pays his bride") and Icelandic mund ("hand") and mundur ("a sum a bridegroom pays his bride"). The IE root was also the source of Latin manus ‘hand’, Albanian marr ‘turn’.

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[edit] Noun

mund f.

  1. (poetic) hand
  2. trust, security. protection
  3. protector, guardian

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[edit] Declension

Singular Plural
nominative mund munda, -e
accusative munde munda, -e
genitive munde munda
dative munde mundum

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[edit] Romansch

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Latin mundus

[edit] Noun

mund

  1. world