dúnn

From Old Norse dúnn, from Proto-Germanic *dūnaz (“down”), which is related to *dauniz (“(pleasant) smell”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰowh₂-nis, from the root *dʰewh₂-.

• IPA^(key): [tutn]

  Rhymes: -utn

dúnn m (genitive singular dúns, no plural)

1. down (immature feathers on young birds)

• Kroonen, Guus (2013) “dauna-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 90

From do + sinni.

• dúin, dún, duún, dúun

• IPA^(key): [duːn͈]

dúnn

1. first-person plural of do: to us, for us
   • c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 15^c23

     Hóre is cuci rigmi, is ferr dún placere illi.

     Since it is to him we will go, it is better for us to please him.

   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 53^b17

     ocu·bether .i. comaicsigfid Día dún tri sodin

     shall be touched, i.e. God will bring [it] near to us through that

• Irish: dúinn
• Manx: dooin
• Scottish Gaelic: dhuinn

dúnn

1. Alternative form of don (“to/for the sg”)
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 77^a15

     Is dúnn imchumurc fil isin chanóin fris·gair lessóm a n‑imchomarc n-ísiu .i. ne occideris .i. in ⸉n‑í⸊írr-siu .i. non. .i. nís·n‑ulemairbfe ci asid·roilliset.

     It is to the interrogation that is in the canon that this interrogation answers with him, i.e. ne occideris i.e. will you sg slay i.e. non i.e. you will not slay them all although they have deserved it.