# stund
## Danish
### Etymology

From Old Norse stund, from Proto-Germanic *stundō (“point in time, hour”), from Proto-Indo-European *stut- (“prop”), from Proto-Indo-European *stā-, *sth- (“to stand”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈsdɔnˀ]

### Noun

stund c (singular definite stunden, plural indefinite stunder)
* an undetermined amount of time, a while
* a moment

#### See also

* morgenstund har guld i mund

## Faroese
### Etymology

From Old Norse stund, from Proto-Germanic *stundō (“point in time, hour”), from Proto-Indo-European *stut- (“prop”), from Proto-Indo-European *stā-, *sth- (“to stand”).

### Noun

stund f (genitive singular stundar, plural stundir)
* while

#### Declension
## German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ʃtʊnt/
* Audio:(file)
* Rhymes: -ʊnt
* Homophone: Stund

### Verb

stund
* Archaic form of stand (“first/third-person singular preterite of stehen”).

## Icelandic
### Etymology

From Old Norse stund.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stʏnt/
    Rhymes: -ʏnt

### Noun

stund f (genitive singular stundar, nominative plural stundir)
* an undetermined amount of time, a while
* an hour
    Synonyms: klukkustund, klukkutími
* exertion, application
    Synonym: ástundun

#### Derived terms

* klukkustund (“hour”)
* um stund (“for a while”)
* um stundar sakir (“for the time being; temporarily”)
* öllum stundum (“all the time”)
* nú um stundir (“nowadays”)
* á sömu stund (“at the same time”)
* þegar fram lída stundir (“as time goes by; in the future”)
* stundum

## Middle English
### Noun

stund
* Alternative form of stound: various spans of time.

## Norwegian Bokmål
### Etymology

From Old Norse stund.

### Noun

stund f or m (definite singular stunda or stunden, indefinite plural stunder, definite plural stundene)
* a while
    for en stund siden – a while ago
* a moment

#### Derived terms

* i skrivende stund

### References

* “stund” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

## Norwegian Nynorsk
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stʉnː/, /stʊnː/

### Etymology 1

From Old Norse stund.

#### Noun

stund f (definite singular stunda, indefinite plural stunder, definite plural stundene)
* a while
* a moment

### Etymology 2
#### Verb

stund
* imperative of stunda

### References

* “stund” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

## Old English
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *stundu, from Proto-Germanic *stundō (“point in time, hour”), from Proto-Indo-European *stut- (“prop”), from Proto-Indo-European *stā-, *sth- (“to stand”).
Cognate with Old Saxon stunda (Dutch stonde), Old High German stunta (German Stunde), Old Norse stund (Swedish stund).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /stund/

### Noun

stund f (nominative plural stunda or stunde)
* time, while
** Nō iċ þa stunde bemearn, ne for wunde weōp ― At the time, I mourned not, nor for the wounded wept. (Exon. Th. 499, 12; Rä. 88, 14)
* a period of time, an hour

#### Declension

Strong ō-stem:

### Adverb

stund
* at once, forthwith, immediately
** Hē word stunde āhōf ― He brought up the word forthwith.

#### Derived terms

* orlegstund (“time of adversity”)
* stundmǣlum (“from time to time, gradually: time after time, alternately”)
* stundum (“from time to time, at times; with effort, laboriously, eagerly, fiercely”)
* winterstund (“winter-hour, short time”)
* woruldstund (“life in this world, sojourn upon earth”)

#### Descendants

* Middle English: stund, stounde, stound
** English: stound

### References

* ↑ https://bosworthtoller.com/29220

## Old Norse
### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *stundō (“point in time, hour”), from Proto-Indo-European *stut- (“prop”). Compare Old English stund, Old Frisian stunde, Old Saxon stunda, Old High German stunta, stunt, Gothic *𐍃𐍄𐌿𐌽𐌳𐌰 (*stunda) (> Catalan estona (“time, while”)).

### Noun

stund f
* an undetermined amount of time, a while
    um stund ― for a while
* hour
    í degi dægr tvau, í dægri stundir tólf ― in a day are two half-days, in a half-day twelve hours
* (grammar) a mora, a unit of time used in measuring syllable length

#### Descendants

* Icelandic: stund
* Faroese: stund
* Norwegian Bokmål: stund
* Norwegian Nynorsk: stund
* Old Swedish: stund
** Swedish: stund
* Danish: stund

## Polabian
### Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German stund / stunde.

### Noun

stund m ?
* hour

### References

* Polański, Kazimierz (1993) “brado”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka Drzewian połabskich [Etymological Dictionary of the Polabian Drevani Language] (in Polish), number 5 (sahi – ťüzǝc), Warszawa: Energeia, page 778
* Polański, Kazimierz, James Allen Sehnert (1967) “brado”, in Polabian-English Dictionary, The Hague, Paris: Mouton & Co, page 140
* Olesch, Reinhold (1971) “Stund”, in Thesaurus Linguae Dravaenopolabicae [Thesaurus of the Drevani language] (in German), volumes 2: P – S, Cologne, Vienna: Böhlau Verlag, →ISBN, page 1117

## Swedish
### Etymology

From Old Norse stund, from Proto-Germanic *stundō (“point in time, hour”), from Proto-Indo-European *stut- (“prop”), from Proto-Indo-European *stā-, *sth- (“to stand”).

### Pronunciation

* Audio; “en stund”:(file)

### Noun

stund c
* while
* moment, time

#### See also

* morgonstund har guld i mund

### Further reading

* stund in Svensk ordbok.

### Anagrams

* dunst