Londoun

• London, Londone, londoun, Londun, lundoun, Lundon
• Londene, Lunden, Lundene (unmodified)

A modification of earlier Londene (from the oblique cases of Old English Lunden, from Latin Londinium) after Medieval Latin Londōnia (the reflex of Latin -ōn- in Gallo-Romance borrowings is usually reflected as Middle English /uːn/), reinforced by the variation in words such as bacoun between variants with final stress (/baːˈkuːn/) and nativised forms with retracted stress and vowel reduction (/ˈbaːkun/, /ˈbaːkən/).

The general loss of final /ə/ even in varieties which otherwise retain it is by analogy with other words ending in /ˈuːn/; a similar process occured in persoun.

• IPA^(key): /lunˈduːn(ə)/, /ˈlundun(ə)/, /ˈlundən(ə)/

Londoun

1. London (the capital city of England)

• English: London
  • → Chinese: 倫敦 / 伦敦 (Lúndūn)
  • → Norwegian Bokmål: London
• Scots: Lunnon
• → Old Norse: Lundúna
  • Icelandic: Lundúna

• “Lǒndon, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 1 April 2018.