toun
Scots
/tun/
noun
Definitions
- A town or village.
- A farm settlement or farmstead.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English toun (hamlet, village) inherited from Old English tūn (enclosure, homestead, town, farmstead, settlement, garden, yard).
Origin
Old English
tūn
Gloss
enclosure, homestead, town, farmstead, settlement, garden, yard
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
園
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Allington English
- Alphamstone English
- Drayton English
- Royston English
- Townsend English
- Washington English
- *tūną Proto-Germanic
- -tūn Old English
- bere Old English
- cirictun Old English
- clǣġ Old English
- deortun Old English
- lictun Old English
- tynan Old English
- tūn Old English
- wyrttun Old English
- toun Middle English
- town Middle English
- ey Old Norse
- Lanton Scots
- Prieston Scots
- ferm Scots
- fermtoun Scots
- lang Scots
- priest Scots