Mund

See also: mund and mund'

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʊnt/
• Rhymes: -ʊnt

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Etymology 1

Picture dictionary

Mund

Stirn

Augenbraue

Wimper

Auge

Nase

Nasenloch

Wange

Kiefer

Mund

Lippe

Kinn

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Körper

Körper

From Middle High German munt, from Old High German mund, from Proto-West Germanic *munþ, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *men-.

Cognate with Low German Mund, Dutch mond, English mouth, Danish mund.

Noun

Mund m (strong, genitive Mundes or Munds, plural Münder, diminutive Mündchen n or Mündlein n)

2. mouth of a person

Declension

Declension of Mund [masculine, strong]

	singular			plural
	indef.	def.	noun	def.	noun
nominative	ein	der	Mund	die	Münder
genitive	eines	des	Mundes, Munds	der	Münder
dative	einem	dem	Mund, Munde1	den	Mündern
accusative	einen	den	Mund	die	Münder

¹Now rare, see notes.

Derived terms

• auf den Mund gefallen
• den Mund verbrennen
• Honigmund
• kein Blatt vor den Mund nehmen
• Kindermund
• Mundart
• münden
• munden
• Mundflora
• mundgerecht
• Mundgeruch
• Mundharmonika
• Mundhöhle
• mündlich
• Mundpropaganda
• Mundraub
• Mundschenk
• Mundschutz
• Mundstück
• mundtot
• Mündung
• Mundvoll
• Mundwasser
• Mundwerk
• Mundwinkel
• Schwarzmündige Bänderschnecke
• von der Hand in den Mund leben
• Weißmündige Bänderschnecke

 

See also

• Maul, mouth of an animal

Etymology 2

From an earlier Munt, from Proto-Germanic *mundō. The retention of /d/ in the combination /nd/ is a signature of northern High German dialects and only becomes widespread after a period in the Middle Ages where the southern reflex /nt/ is favoured in southern writings.

Noun

Mund f (genitive Mund, plural Munde)

2. (obsolete) hand
3. (obsolete) legal protection

Usage notes

• Due to conflation with the masculine noun, combined nouns based on this one are also masculine.

See also

• Vormund, mündig, entmündigen
• Morgenstund hat Gold im Mund (originally in Mund)

Further reading

• “Mund (Öffnung, Lippen, Schlund)” in Duden online
• “Mund (Gewalt, Macht)” in Duden online
• “Mund” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Mund” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Mund” in OpenThesaurus.de
• Mund on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Mund”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

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Hunsrik

Etymology

From Middle High German munt, from Old High German mund, from Proto-West Germanic *munþ, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *men-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /munt/

Noun

Mund m (plural Munde, diminutive Mundche)

1. mouth

Derived terms

• Mundfeil

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary