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TUN
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Origin and Meaning
(In English given names:) Old English name element (deriving from place names), see also TON
Old Norse
tún = 'hedge' [1]
tún = 'single farmstead' [1]
tún = 'a hedged plot', 'enclosure', 'court-yard', 'homestead' [2] [3]
tún = 'home field', 'home meadow' [2]
tún = 'town' [2]
tūn = 'a hedged plot', 'single farmstead', 'settlement' [4]
Old High German
zūn = 'enclosure', 'hedge' [4]
Middle High German
zūn = 'enclosure', 'hedge' [4]
Anglo-Saxon
tûn = 'hedge' [1]
tûn = 'enclosure', 'a hedged or fenced plot' [1]
Old English
tūn = 'enclosure', 'settlement' [5] [4]
tūn = 'farmstead', 'village', 'manor', 'estate' [6] [4]
Swedish
tun = 'smallholding' [3]
Gutnish
tun = 'fence' [3]
German
Dutch
tuin = 'garden' [4]
Combinations
| Name Element |
Example |
|---|---|
| ADAL | see Elton (English) |
| AUST | see Aston (English) |
| BORG | see Burton (English) |
| ELL | see Elton (English) |
| KING | see Kingston (English) |
| LÍN | see Linton (English) |
| LIND | see Linton (English) |
| MÓR | see Morton (English) |
| NOR | see Norton (English) |
| NY | see Newton (English) |
| VAL | see Walton (English) |
| Wassa | see Washington (English) |
| VIN | see Winston (English) |
See also
Last Element Forms
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Richard Cleasby, Gudbrand Vigfusson: An Icelandic-English Dictionary (1874)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Geir T. Zoëga: A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic (1910)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Elias Wessén: Våra ord (1997)
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 Günther Drosdowski: Duden Etymologie - Herkunftswörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (1997)
- ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
- ↑ A. D. Mills: Oxford Dictionary of British Place Names (2003)