Mund

See also: mund and mund'

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʊnt/
• Rhymes: -ʊnt

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Etymology 1

Picture dictionary: Mund

Mund

Lippe

Zahnfleisch

Zahn

Zunge

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Gesicht

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

   Synonyms: Maul n, Gosche f, Fresse f, Klappe f, Schnauze f

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
• munden
• münden
• Mundflora
• mundgerecht
• Mundgeruch
• Mundharmonika
• Mundhöhle
• mündlich
• Mundorgel
• Mundpropaganda
• Mundraub
• Mundschenk
• Mundschutz
• Mundstück
• Mundteil
• mundtot
• Mündung
• Mundvoll
• Mundwasser
• Mundwerk
• Mundwinkel
• Schwarzmündige Bänderschnecke
• Urmünder
• von der Hand in den Mund leben
• Weißmündige Bänderschnecke

See also

• Maul, mouth of an animal

Etymology 2

From an earlier Munt, from Middle High German and Old High German 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, no plural)

2. (obsolete) hand

   Solange die Frau unter seiner Mund ist, hat sie keinen Nießbrauch an ihrem Vermögen.

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3. (obsolete) legal protection

Usage notes

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

Declension

Declension of Mund [sg-only, feminine]

	singular
	indef.	def.	noun
nominative	eine	die	Mund
genitive	einer	der	Mund
dative	einer	der	Mund
accusative	eine	die	Mund

Derived terms

• Morgenstund hat Gold im Mund (originally in Mund)

Related terms

• bevormunden
• entmündigen
• mündig
• Vormund

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

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): /ˈmunt/
• Rhymes: -unt
• Syllabification: Mund

Noun

Mund m (plural Munde, diminutive Mundche)

1. mouth

Derived terms

• Mundfeil

Further reading

• Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “Mund”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch