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

• dúin, dún, duún, dúun

From do + sinni.

• IPA^(key): [duːn̪ˠ]

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