dune

Partly from a dialectal form of down; and partly from French dune (from Old French dune), or from Middle Dutch dūne (modern Dutch duin), or from Middle Low German dûne; all ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *dūn, *dūnā, probably from Proto-Celtic *dūnom (“stronghold, rampart”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuHnom (“enclosure”), from *dʰewh₂- (“to finish, come full circle”). Doublet of down (which see). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

• (Received Pronunciation)
  • (non-yod-coalescence) IPA^(key): /djuːn/
  • (yod-coalescence) IPA^(key): /d͡ʒuːn/

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  • Homophone: June (with /dʒ/)
• (General American)
  • (yod-dropping) IPA^(key): /dun/
• (Wales, Ottawa Valley) IPA^(key): /dɪu̯n/
• Rhymes: -uːn

dune (plural dunes)

1. (geomorphology) A ridge or hill of sand piled up by currents of wind or water.
   • 1975, Texas A & M University. College of Geosciences, Contributions in Oceanography:

     Heavy line segments (lengthened for clarity) indicate locations of deep-sea dunes.

   • 2021 February 23, Etienne Guyon, Jose Bico, Etienne Reyssat, Benoit Roman, Hidden Wonders: The Subtle Dialogue Between Physics and Elegance, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 257:

     In the early 2000s, space probes [confirmed Mars as] having dunes […] Their shapes are identical to their Saharan cousins', but they are ten times bigger. In contrast, underwater dunes are a hundred times smaller than their counterparts on solid ground. This universality of dunes is a blessing for physicists: their comparative study confirmed the models that describe the formation of dunes on Earth.

• sand dune, sand-dune

• dyke, dike

• duned

• nude, undé

Borrowed from Bulgarian дю́ля (djúlja), dialectal ду́ня (dúnja), compare Macedonian дуња (dunja).

dune f (definite dunja) (dialectal, Mandrica)

1. quince

   Synonym: (standard) ftua

• Shuteriqi (1965), page 157: “dune-ja”

Inherited from Middle French dune, from Old French dune, from Middle Dutch dūne (modern Dutch duin), from Old Dutch dūn, dūno, from Proto-West Germanic *dūnā (“hill”), of uncertain origin. More at Proto-West Germanic *dūnā.

• IPA^(key): /dyn/

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• Rhymes: -yn

dune f (plural dunes)

1. dune

• → Catalan: duna
• → Portuguese: duna

• “dune”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

dune f (plural dunis)

1. dune

• IPA^(key): /ˈdu.ne/
• Rhymes: -une
• Hyphenation: dù‧ne

dune f pl

1. plural of duna

• nude

dune

1. (Southern, West Midland) alternative form of dyne

Probably an aphetic form of adūn, adūne (“adown, down, downward”).^[1] Compare also ofdūne (“down”, adverb).

dūne

1. down

See dūn.

dūne

1. inflection of dūn:
   1. accusative/genitive/dative singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

• T[homas] Northcote Toller (1921), “dúne, adj.”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary […]: Supplement, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →OCLC, page 160, column 2.

dune (Cyrillic spelling дуне)

1. third-person singular present of dunuti