different between fun vs zun

English

Etymology

From Middle English fonne, fon (“foolish, simple, silly”) or fonnen (“make a fool of”), probably of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish fånig (“foolish”), Swedish fåne (“a fool”). Compare also Norwegian fomme, fume (“a fool”). More at fon, fond.

As a noun, fun is recorded from 1700, with a meaning “a cheat, trick, hoax”, from a verb fun meaning “to cheat, trick” (1680s). The meaning “diversion, amusement” dates to the 1720s. The older meaning is preserved in the phrase to make fun of (1737) and in usage of the adjective funny. The use of fun as adjective is newest and is due to reanalysis of the noun; this was incipient in the mid-19th century.

Alternative etymology connected Middle English fonne with Old Frisian fonna, fone, fomne, variant forms of f?mne, f?mne (“young woman, virgin”), from Proto-West Germanic *faimnij?, from Proto-Germanic *faimnij? (“maiden”), from Proto-Indo-European *peymen- (“girl”), *poymen- (“breast milk”). If so, then cognate with Old English f?mne (“maid, virgin, damsel, bride”), West Frisian famke (“girl”), Saterland Frisian fone, fon (“woman, maid, servant," also "weakling, simpleton”).

Pronunciation

• (US, UK) enPR: f?n, IPA^(key): /f?n/
• (Northern England) IPA^(key): /f?n/
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

fun (uncountable)

1. amusement, enjoyment or pleasure
2. playful, often noisy, activity.

Synonyms

• (enjoyment, amusement): amusement, diversion, enjoyment, a laugh, pleasure
• (playful, often noisy, activity): boisterousness, horseplay, rough and tumble

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

fun (comparative more fun or funner, superlative most fun or funnest)

1. (informal) enjoyable, amusing

   We had a fun time at the party.

   He is such a fun person to be with.

   • 2016 January 11, Tom Bateman, quoted in Nigel Hunt, "Jekyll and Hyde, TV revamp of Robert Louis Stevenson classic, debuts on CBC-TV" CBC News, Canada:

     He's the liberated character that everyone wants to be, so he was very fun to play

2. (informal) whimsical, flamboyant

   This year's fashion style is much more fun than recent seasons.

Usage notes

• Note that, prescriptively, the adjectival use of fun, instead of funny as in a funny movie, is often considered unacceptable in formal contexts. This includes censure of the comparative and superlative funner and funnest, but equally constructions such as very fun (rather than, say, a lot of fun). For more, see Quinion's discussion.

Translations

Verb

fun (third-person singular simple present funs, present participle funning, simple past and past participle funned)

1. (colloquial) To tease, kid, poke fun at, make fun of.

   Hey, don't get bent out of shape over it; I was just funning you.

Translations

Anagrams

• FNU, NFU, unf

Chibcha

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?un/

Noun

fun

1. Alternative form of bun

References

• Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.

French

Adjective

fun (invariable)

1. (colloquial) fun

Galician

Etymology 1

Inflected form of ir (“to go”).

Verb

fun

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of ir

Etymology 2

Inflected form of ser (“to be”).

Verb

fun

1. first-person singular preterite indicative of ser

Japanese

Romanization

fun

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Tboli

Noun

fun

1. owner

Yoruba

Verb

fún

1. give
2. choke, squeeze, strangle, throttle
3. scatter, strew
4. sew

Preposition

fún

1. for, on behalf of

English

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [z?n]

Noun

zun (plural zuns)

1. (nonstandard, Britain) Pronunciation spelling of sun.

   • So long’s the sky is clear;

   • Glaw’d bright as tha zun in a mornin o’ mâ;

Etymology 2

Romanized from Mandarin ? (z?n).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /z?n/, /dz?n/

Noun

zun (plural zuns or zun)

1. A type of Chinese ritual bronze or ceramic wine vessel with a round or square vase-like form, sometimes in the shape of an animal.

Translations

Cimbrian

Alternative forms

• sun, sunn

Etymology

From Middle High German sun, from Old High German sunu, from Proto-Germanic *sunuz (“son”). Cognate with German Sohn, Dutch zoon, English son, Icelandic sonur.

Noun

zun m (plural zünne)

1. (Sette Comuni) son

Declension

References

• “zun” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Friulian

Alternative forms

• ?un (alternative orthography)

Etymology

From a Vulgar Latin derivative of Latin jej?nus, from iei?nus.

Adjective

zun

1. fasting
2. (figuratively) lacking

Related terms

• dizun
• zunâ

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tsu?n/, /ts?n/

Contraction

zun (+ optional adjective(s) ending with -en + plural noun)

1. (obsolete or dialectal) to or for the (contraction of zu + den)

Japanese

Romanization

zun

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Jingpho

Etymology

Borrowed from Burmese ????? (jwan:)

Noun

zun

1. spoon

References

• Kurabe, Keita (2016-12-31) , “Phonology of Burmese loanwords in Jinghpaw”, in Kyoto University Linguistic Research?^[1], volume 35, DOI:10.14989/219015, ISSN 1349-7804, pages 91–128

Mandarin

Romanization

zun

1. Nonstandard spelling of z?n.
2. Nonstandard spelling of z?n.
3. Nonstandard spelling of zùn.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *t?n, from Proto-Germanic *t?n?.

Noun

z?n ?

1. fence

Descendants

• Middle High German: z?n
  • German: Zaun

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Noun

zun m

1. son

Noun

zun f

1. sun