German

Noun

Mund m ‎(genitive Mundes or Munds, plural Münder)

1. mouth

Declension

Related terms

Etymology 2

From an earlier Munt, from Proto-Germanic *mundō. The retention of /d/ in the combination /nd/ is a signature of northern High German dialects and only becomes widespread after a period in the middle ages where the southern reflex /nt/ is favoured in southern writings.

Noun

Mund f ‎(genitive Mund, plural Munde)

1. (obsolete) hand
2. (obsolete) legal protection

Usage notes

• Due to conflation with the masculine noun, combined nouns based on this one are also masculine.

See also

• Vormund, mündig, entmündigen, Leumund

English

Noun

mund ‎(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. Protection, guardianship.

Anagrams

• UNDM

Albanian

Etymology 1

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *mendh ‎(“to pay attention to, be vivacious”). Compare Old Norse munda ‎(“aim, strive”), Gothic mundon ‎(mundon, “look up”), Old High German muntar ‎(“keen, eager”), Ancient Greek μανθάνω ‎(manthánō, “learn”), Lithuanian mañdras ‎(“alert, awake, smart, minxish”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʊnd/

Noun

mund m

1. trouble
2. toil

Derived terms

• mundur
• mundje
• mundim

Related terms

• Muji

Etymology 2

From Proto-Albanian *māK(e)nT-, from Proto-Indo-European *magʰ- ‎(“can, to be able (to do)”). Cognate to Lithuanian mokė́ti ‎(“to be able”), Gothic magan ‎(magan, “to be able, have power”), Old Church Slavonic мошти ‎(mošti, “to be able”). Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *men(s)-dʰ(e)h₂ ‎(“to learn”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mʊnd/

Verb

mund ‎(first-person singular past tense munda, participle mundur)

1. I can.
2. I am able.
3. I beat, win over.

Inflection

Related terms

• mundem

Danish

mund

Etymology

From Old Norse muðr, munnr, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz ‎(“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ment-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mon/, [mɔnˀ]

Noun

mund c (singular definite munden, plural indefinite munde)

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

Inflection

See also

• mund on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

Verb

mund

1. imperative of munde

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse mund ‎(“hand”), from Proto-Germanic *mundō with a variety of meanings. Further cognates see there.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ʏnt

Noun

mund f

1. hand

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• morgunstund gefur gull í mund

See also

• mundur
• heimamundur

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse muðr, munnr, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz ‎(“mouth”), from Proto-Indo-European *ment-.

Noun

mund

1. mouth

Inflection

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *munþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ment-. Compare Old Saxon mūth, Old Frisian mūth, mund, mond, Old High German mund, Old English mūþ, Old Norse muðr, munnr.

Noun

mund m

1. mouth

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: mont, munt
  • Dutch: mond

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *mundō with a variety of meanings, from the Proto-Indo-European *man- ‎(“hand”). Further cognates see there.

Pronunciation

Noun

mund f ‎(nominative plural munda or munde)

1. (poetic) hand
2. trust, security. protection
3. protector, guardian

Derived terms

• mundgripe

Declension

Descendants

• English: mound, mund

Old French

Etymology

From Latin mundus.

Noun

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

1. the world

Old Norse

Etymology

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

Noun

mund f

1. hand

Descendants

• Icelandic: mund

References

• mund in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Romansch

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

From Latin mundus.

Noun

mund m (plural munds)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) world