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From Middle English and Old English mund, from Proto-Germanic *mundō (“hand, protection, security”).

• IPA^(key): /mʊnd/, /mʌnd/
• Rhymes: -ʊnd, -ʌnd

mund (countable and uncountable, 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. (obsolete) Protection; guardianship.

• mundbreach

• UNDM

• IPA^(key): /ˈmund/

Uncertain: Possibly:

• From Proto-Indo-European *megʰ- (“to be able”),^[1][2] though there's no evidence supporting the fall of the velar.
• A nasal-infixed formation from the root *mewd-, whence also mudà (“possibility”), mudúoti (“to try, attempt”) and Sanskrit मुद् (mud, “to be happy, rejoice”).^[3]
• From Proto-Indo-European *meHndʰ- (“to pay attention, wisdom”).^[4][5][6]
• Akin to Lithuanian išmintìs (“to be able”), išmėginti (“try”), išmintìs (“wisdom”).^[7]

• mundënj — Arvanitika, Arbëresh
• mûj, muj — Gheg

mund (aorist munda, participle mundur)

1. (intransitive) can, to be able to; to have the opportunity, power or ability
2. followed by të
   1. grammatical particle used for conjunctive forms

      A mund të më tregoni shtëpinë?

      Could you show me the house?

   2. (third person) could be possible; possibly, maybe, perhaps (used as a semi-auxiliary verb)
3. to beat, win over, conquer
4. (transitive) to defeat, beat; to emerge victorious (in a match, battle)
5. to survive, get over, beat (a fear, illness, disease)
6. (figurative, third person) take over (with short pronoun forms)

   Më mundi gjumi.

   The sleep took over me

7. (mediopassive) See mundem.

1=mund

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *mn̥(s)-dʰh₁-. Compare Old Norse munda (“aim, strive”), Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍉𐌽 (mundōn, “look up”), Old High German muntar (“keen, eager”), Ancient Greek μανθάνω (manthánō, “learn”), Lithuanian mañdras (“alert, awake, smart, minxish”).

• mûn — Gheg

mund m (definite mundi)

1. agony, toil, great effort
2. arduous and hard work (that pays off)
3. tribulation, cause of trouble or suffer

• Muji

• “mund”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006

From Old Norse muðr, munnr, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz, cognate with English mouth, German Mund.

• IPA^(key): /monˀ/, [ˈmɔnˀ]

mund c (singular definite munden, plural indefinite munde)

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

•   mund on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

mund

1. imperative of munde

• IPA^(key): /mʏnt/
• Rhymes: -ʏnt

From Old Norse mund, from Proto-Germanic *mundō.

mund f (genitive singular mundar, nominative plural mundir)

1. (poetic) hand

• (hand): hönd

• morgunstund gefur gull í mund (“the early bird catches the worm”)

Related to Old Norse munda (“to aim, to strive”), Old High German muntar (“keen, eager”), from Proto-Germanic *mundraz (“alert”).

mund f (genitive singular mundar, nominative plural mundir) or mund n (genitive singular munds, nominative plural mund)

1. Used only in set phrases.

or

• í sömu mund/í sama mund (“at the same time”)
• um þær mundir (“in those days, around that time”)

• mundur

• munde, mounde, mound

From Old English mund, from Proto-Germanic *mundō.

• IPA^(key): /muːnd/, /mund/

mund (plural moundes or munden)

1. Might, ability, or skill.
2. Magnitude, greatness, utility, or usefulness.
3. (rare) Protection, guarding, defence
4. (rare) A hand, especially as a measurement.
5. (rare) A band of warriors or fighters.

• English: mound, mund
• Scots: moond

• “mǒund(e, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-20.

From Proto-Germanic *mundō (“hand]; guard; security”). Cognate with Old Frisian mund, Old Saxon mund.

• IPA^(key): /mund/

mund f (nominative plural munda or munde)

1. (poetic) hand, palm as a measure of length. In this meaning is not used later than OE period [OED].
2. trust, security, protection
3. protector, guardian

Although mund is grammatically feminine, names formed with this element are always masculine.^[1]

• mundbyrd
• mundgripe

• Middle English: mund, mound
  • English: mound, mund

From Latin mundus.

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

1. the world

From Proto-West Germanic *munþ.

mund m

1. (anatomy) mouth

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

mund f

1. hand

• Icelandic: mund
• Old Swedish: mund

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

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

From Latin mundus.

mund m (plural munds)

1. (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) world

mund c

1. (archaic) a mouth

   Synonym: mun

• inmundiga

• mund in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)