# tún
## Faroese
### Etymology

From Old Norse tún, from Proto-Germanic *tūną, from Gaulish *dunum, *dūnom, from Proto-Celtic *dūnom, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to finish, come full circle”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʰʉuːn/
* Rhymes: -ʉuːn

### Noun

tún n (genitive singular túns, plural tún)
* forecourt (e.g. asphalted), way between houses, street in a Faroese village

#### Derived terms

* fortún (“footpath”)
* hátún (“terrace”)

## Hokkien

* For pronunciation and definitions of tún – see 囤 (“to store up; to hoard”). (This term is the pe̍h-ōe-jī form of 囤).

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse tún, from Proto-Germanic *tūną, from Gaulish *dunum, *dūnom, from Proto-Celtic *dūnom, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to finish, come full circle”). Cognate with Danish tun (“enclosed area”), Norwegian Nynorsk tun (“farmstead; courtyard”), English town, German Zaun (“fence”), Dutch tuin (“garden”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tʰuːn/
* Rhymes: -uːn

### Noun

tún n (genitive singular túns, nominative plural tún)
* hayfield

#### Derived terms

* túnfiskur
* túnfífill
* túnsúra
* túnvingull

## Karakalpak
### Alternative forms

* tu'n (obsolete)

### Noun

tún
* night

## Mandarin
### Romanization

tún (tun$^2$, Zhuyin ㄊㄨㄣˊ)
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 回
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 坉
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 屯
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 忳
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 敤
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 沉
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 燆 / 𮳧
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 穻
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 紓 / 纾
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 纫
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 肪
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 臀
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 臋
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 芚
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 訰 / 𰵍
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 豘
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 豚
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 軘 / 𰹸
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 逐
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 霕
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 飩 / 饨
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 魨 / 鲀
* Hanyu Pinyin reading of 鲀

## Old Norse
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *tūną (“fence, enclosure”), from Gaulish *dūnon, from Proto-Celtic *dūnom (“stronghold”). Cognate with Old English tūn, Old Frisian tūn, Old Saxon tūn, Old High German zūn. See also Proto-Slavic *tynъ (“fence”), which is a borrowing from the Proto-Germanic word. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to finish, come full circle”).

### Pronunciation

* (12th century Icelandic) IPA: /ˈtũːn/

### Noun

tún n (genitive túns, plural tún)
* a hedged plot, enclosure, courtyard, homestead
** Sigurðarkviða Fáfnisbana III, verse 29, lines 7-8, in 1860, T. Möbius, Edda Sæmundar hins fróða: mit einem Anhang zum Theil bisher ungedruckter Gedichte. Leipzig, page 147:
    […] ok gullu víð / gæss í túni.
    […] and in the court / the geese loudly screamed.
* a field or meadow around the dwelling
** Saga Sigurðar Jórsalafara 13, in 1832, R. Rask, Fornmanna sögur, Volume VII. Copenhagen, page 97:
    […] sem eitt tún vítt vel ok kringlótt, […]
    […] as a broad and round-shaped field, […]

#### Derived terms

* muntún (“breast”)
* reikartún (“head”)
* Tuna (“placename designating a shared or major enclosure”)
* túnannir (“haymaking in the home-field”)
* túnbrekka (“edge of the home-field”)
* túngarðr (“fence of the home-field”)
* túngǫltr (“home-field boar”)
* túnhlið (“court-gate”)
* túnriða (“witch, ghost”)
* túnsvið (“sapace of home-field”)
* túnsvín (“home-field boar”)
* túnvǫllr (“strip of home-field”)

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: tún
* Faroese: tún
* Norwegian Nynorsk: tun, Tune; (dialectal) ton
* Swedish: tun, -tuna, Tuna
* Danish: tun, Tune
** Norwegian Bokmål: tun, Tune

### Further reading

* Richard Cleasby, Guðbrandur Vigfússon (1874) “tún”, in An Icelandic-English Dictionary, 1st edition, Oxford: Oxford Clarendon Press, page 644
* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “tún”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 444; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857
* page/444 Internet Archive]
* Per Vikstrand & al. (2023), "Tuna Revisited", Research Projects of the Dept. of Archaeology at the University of Uppsala.

## West Frisian
### Etymology

From Old Frisian tūn, from Proto-West Germanic *tūn, from Proto-Germanic *tūną. Cognate to Dutch tuin, English town, German Zaun.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /tyn/

### Noun

tún c or n (plural tunen, diminutive túntsje)
* garden

#### Derived terms

* dieretún
* eftertún
* foartún
* moestún