different between midday vs undern

English

Alternative forms

• mid-day

Etymology

From Middle English midday, from Old English middæ? (“midday, noon”), equivalent to mid- +? day. Cognate with Scots midday (“midday”), West Frisian middei (“midday, noon, afternoon”), Dutch middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”), German Mittag (“noon, midday, late morning, early afternoon”), Danish middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”), Norwegian Bokmål middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”), Swedish middag (“midday, noon, afternoon”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?d?de?/

Noun

midday (countable and uncountable, plural middays)

1. noon; twelve o'clock during the day

Synonyms

• nones, noontide; see also Thesaurus:midday

Antonyms

• midnight; see also Thesaurus:midnight

Translations

See also

• (times of day) time of day; dawn, morning, noon/midday, afternoon, dusk, evening, night, midnight ^{(Category: en:Times of day)}

Anagrams

• mydaid

English

Alternative forms

• underne, undirn

Etymology

From Middle English undern, ondern, from Old English undern (“third hour of the day; nine o'clock; morning”), from Proto-Germanic *undurniz (“interval”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?n?ter, *h?enter (“between”). Cognate with dialectal Dutch onder, dialectal German Untern, dialectal Swedish undarn.

Noun

undern (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) Synonym of terce: the third hour of daylight (about 9 am). [10^th-15^thc.]
2. (obsolete) Synonym of noon: the sixth hour of daylight (12 pm). [14^th-15^thc.]
3. (Britain, dialectal) Synonym of afternoon. [15^thc.]
4. (Britain, dialectal) Synonym of evening. [15^thc.]
5. (Britain, dialectal) A light meal, particularly in the afternoon. [17^thc.]

Synonyms

• (noon): meridian, sext; see also Thesaurus:midday
• (afternoon): arvo; see also Thesaurus:afternoon
• (evening): eventide; see also Thesaurus:evening
• (light meal): snack

Derived terms

• andersmeat, half undern, high undern, undermeal, undern-bell, undern-song, underntide, undertide, whole undern

Translations

References

• "undern, n.", in the Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Anagrams

• dunner, end run, runned

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *undurniz (“interval”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?n?ter, *h?enter (“between”). Influenced in sense by Latin tertia. Cognate with Old Norse undorn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?un.dern/, [?un.der?n]

Noun

undern m

1. terce, the third hour of the day (around 9 am)
2. (in some later use) midday, the sixth hour of the day (12 pm)
3. (in compounds) morning generally

Synonyms

• (third hour): undernm?l, underntid, underntima
• (sixth hour): middæ?

Hypernyms

• stunda, tid

Derived terms

• underngereord, underngifl, undernmete, undernrest, undernsang, undernswæsendu

Descendants

• Middle English: ondern, undern
  • English: undern

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “undern”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.