mund

From Middle English and Old English mund, from Proto-Germanic *mundō (“hand, protection, security”).

• IPA^(key): /mʊnd/, /mʌnd/

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• Rhymes: -ʊnd, -ʌnd

mund (countable and uncountable, plural munds)

1. (obsolete) A hand.
2. (obsolete) Security, granted by a king or earl, the violation of which was punished by a fine (a mundbyrd).
3. (obsolete) Protection; guardianship.

• mundbreach

• UNDM

• IPA^(key): /ˈmund/

Uncertain: Possibly:

• From Proto-Indo-European *megʰ- (“to be able”),^[1][2] though there's no evidence supporting the fall of the velar.
• A nasal-infixed formation from the root *mewd-, whence also mudà (“possibility”), mudúoti (“to try, attempt”) and Sanskrit मुद् (mud, “to be happy, rejoice”).^[3]
• From Proto-Indo-European *men(s)dʰh₁- (“to pay attention, wisdom”).^[4][5][6]
• Akin to Lithuanian išminti̇̀s (“to be able”), išmėginti (“try”), išminti̇̀s (“wisdom”).^[7]

• mundënj — Arvanitika, Arbëresh
• mûj, muj — Gheg

mund (aorist munda, participle mundur)

1. (intransitive) can, to be able to; to have the opportunity, power or ability
2. followed by të
   1. grammatical particle used for conjunctive forms

      A mund të më tregoni shtëpinë?

      Could you show me the house?

   2. (third person) could be possible; possibly, maybe, perhaps (used as a semi-auxiliary verb)
3. to beat, win over, conquer
4. (transitive) to defeat, beat; to emerge victorious (in a match, battle)
5. to survive, get over, beat (a fear, illness, disease)
6. (figurative, third person) take over (with short pronoun forms)

   Më mundi gjumi.

   The sleep took over me

7. (mediopassive voice) See mundem.

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *men(s)dʰh₁-. Compare Old Norse munda (“aim, strive”), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍉𐌽 (mundōn, “look up”), Old High German muntar (“keen, eager”), Ancient Greek μανθάνω (manthánō, “learn”), Lithuanian mañdras (“alert, awake, smart, minxish”).

• mûn — Gheg

mund m (definite mundi)

1. agony, toil, great effort
2. arduous and hard work (that pays off)
3. tribulation, cause of trouble or suffer

• Muji

• “mund”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

From Old Norse muðr, munnr, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz, cognate with English mouth, German Mund.

• IPA^(key): /monˀ/, [ˈmɔnˀ]

mund c (singular definite munden, plural indefinite munde)

1. mouth (the opening of an animal through which food is ingested)

• mund on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

mund

1. imperative of munde

• IPA^(key): /mʏnt/
• Rhymes: -ʏnt

Inherited from Old Norse mund, from Proto-Germanic *mundō.

mund f (genitive singular mundar, nominative plural mundir)

1. (poetic) hand

   Synonym: hönd

• morgunstund gefur gull í mund (“the early bird catches the worm”)

Related to Old Norse munda (“to aim, to strive”), Old High German muntar (“keen, eager”), from Proto-Germanic *mundraz (“alert”).

mund f (genitive singular mundar, nominative plural mundir) or
mund n (genitive singular munds, no plural)

1. used only in set phrases

• í sömu mund/í sama mund (“at the same time”)
• um þær mundir (“in those days, around that time”)

• mundur

• munde, mounde, mound

From Old English mund, from Proto-Germanic *mundō.

• IPA^(key): /muːnd/, /mund/

mund (plural moundes or munden)

1. Might, ability, or skill.
2. Magnitude, greatness, utility, or usefulness.
3. (rare) Protection, guarding, defence
4. (rare) A hand, especially as a measurement.
5. (rare) A band of warriors or fighters.

• English: mound, mund
• Scots: moond

• “mǒund(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 20 June 2018.

From Proto-Germanic *mundō (“hand, guard, security”). Cognate with Old Frisian mund, Old Saxon mund.

• IPA^(key): /mund/

mund f (nominative plural munda or munde)

1. (poetic) hand, palm as a measure of length
2. trust, security, protection
3. protector, guardian

Although mund is grammatically feminine, names formed with this element are always masculine.^[1]

Strong ō-stem:

• Middle English: mund, mound
  • English: mound, mund

From Latin mundus.

mund oblique singular, m (oblique plural munz or muntz, nominative singular munz or muntz, nominative plural mund)

1. the world

From Proto-West Germanic *munþ.

mund m

1. (anatomy) mouth

From Proto-Germanic *mundō (“hand”). Further cognates see there.

mund f

1. hand

• Icelandic: mund
• Old Swedish: mund
• Old Danish: mund

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910), “mund”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

• mond (Surmiran)
• muond (Puter, Vallader)

From Latin mundus.

mund m (plural munds)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) world

mund c

1. (archaic) a mouth

   Synonym: mun

• inmundiga

• mund in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)