dunn

• donn, don (most of Ripuarian, don also northern Moselle Franconian)
• dun (southern Moselle Franconian)

From Middle High German duon, from Old High German duon, West Central German form of tuon, from Proto-West Germanic *dōn.

• IPA^(key): /dun/

dunn (third-person singular present deit, preterite and subjunctive dät, past participle jedonn) (Kölsch)

1. to do

   Ich dunn hee de janze Arbeit! ― I’m doing all the work here!

2. Used in the preterite with a following infinitive to form the paraphrastic preterite.

   Ich dät us em Finster luure. ― I looked out the window.

3. Used in the subjunctive with a following infinitive to form the conditional tense.

   Ich dät jo noch jet blieve, ävver ming Frau well noh Huus.

   I would stay some more, but my wife wants to go home.

• See the notes at donn.

From Middle High German duo, alternative form of dō (“then, at that time in the past”). The final -n by analogy with dann (“then, at that time in the future”), as also in cognate Dutch toen. Further cognate with German da (merged with another Middle High German word).

• IPA^(key): [dun]

dunn

1. then (after that)

   Synonyms: duerno, dueropshin

   D’éischt huet en eppes giess an dunn ass en heemgaangen.

   First he ate something and then he went home.

2. then, that’s when (at that moment)

   Wéi en eppes giess hat, dunn ass en heemgaangen.

   When he had eaten something, [then] he went home.

3. back then (in those days)

   Synonym: deemools

   Dunn huet een dat esou gemaach.

   Back then, that was how it was done.

• The word refers to the past. For the present and future use dann.

• dun

From Proto-West Germanic *duʀn, from Proto-Germanic *duznaz, *dusnaz (“brown; yellow”). Cognate with Old Saxon dunn, dun (“brown, dark”), Old Norse dunna (“female mallard”), Old Saxon dosan (“brown”), Old High German tusin (“ash-grey, dull brown”). Compare also Old Irish donn (“brown”).

• IPA^(key): /dunn/, [dun]

dunn

1. dark, dun, brown, or black in color (glosses Latin fuscus and aquilus)
2. bleak, dark, dim

• *dunnuc
• dunfealu
• dungrǣġ

• Middle English: dunne, donne
  • Scots: dune, din
  • English: dun