different between unc vs und
unc
English
Etymology
Shortening.
Noun
unc (plural uncs)
- (colloquial) uncle
- 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things
- Then Pangborn would find him and ask him what he thought he was doing here. He would ask if Ace had a job. He didn't, and he couldn't even claim he had come back to visit his unc, because Pop had been in his junkshop when the place burned down.
- 1991, Stephen King, Needful Things
Synonyms
- unkie
- unky
Anagrams
- NUC, cun, nuc
Middle English
Pronoun
unc
- Alternative form of unk
Old English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /unk/, [u?k]
Pronoun
unc
- accusative/dative of wit: (to) us two
Old High German
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic [Term?], ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?éng??is (“snake”).
Noun
unc m
- snake
- toad
Descendants
- German: Unke
unc From the web:
- what unclogs drains
- what unclogs a toilet
- what unclogs pores
- what unclogs shower drains
- what uncle sam really wants
- what uncle tom's cabin about
- what unconditional love means
- what uncertainties existed in germany in the 1920s
und
English
Alternative forms
- vnd (alternative typography) [16th C.]
Etymology
From Middle English unde (“a wave”), from either the Old French unde or Latin unda (“wave”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?nd/
- Rhymes: -?nd
Noun
und (plural unds)
- (obsolete, rare) A wave.
- (heraldry) A billow- or wave-like marking.
Related terms
References
- OED (2nd ed., 1989), “†und”
Anagrams
- DNU, Dun, dun
Estonian
Noun
und
- partitive singular of uni
German
Alternative forms
- unt, vnd, vnnd, unnd (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle High German unde, from Old High German unti, from Proto-Germanic *andi *anþi, from Proto-Indo-European *h?énti. Compare Dutch en, English and, Danish end.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?nt/ (standard)
- IPA(key): /?n/ (colloquially among many speakers)
Conjunction
und
- (co-ordinating) and
- 1904, Rudolf Eisler, Wörterbuch der philosophischen Begriffe, Berlin, volume 1, sub verbo Ich, page 446-457:
- "Das »Ich = Ich« ist die ursprünglichste Erkenntnis, die Urquelle alles Denkens [..], es bedeutet »erstens die rein logische Identität von Subject und Object im Acte des reinen Selbstbewußtseins, zweitens die reale metaphysische Identität des setzenden absoluten Ich und des gesetzten begrenzten Ich, und drittens die zeitliche Identität des Ich in zwei rasch aufeinander folgenden Zeitpunkten« [...]."
- 1904, Rudolf Eisler, Wörterbuch der philosophischen Begriffe, Berlin, volume 1, sub verbo Ich, page 446-457:
- (colloquial) links two nouns, often a person and an activity, in rhetoric questions to express an opposition between them
Usage notes
As seen in the second example, commas are never used before und in enumerations, even where English punctuation requires this. However, commas are used before und in certain complex sentence constructions.
Interjection
und
- so?, now?, and?
Further reading
- “und” in Duden online
- “und” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- Friedrich Kluge (1883) , “und”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891
Gothic
Romanization
und
- Romanization of ????????????
Hungarian
Alternative forms
- unjad
Etymology
un +? -d
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?und]
- Hyphenation: und
- Rhymes: -und
- Homophone: Und
Verb
und
- second-person singular subjunctive present definite of un
Icelandic
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?nt/
- Rhymes: -?nt
Etymology 1
From Old Norse und, from Proto-Germanic *wund?.
Noun
und f (genitive singular undar, nominative plural undir)
- (poetic) wound
Declension
Synonyms
- (wound): sár
Etymology 2
Apocopated form of undir.
Preposition
und
- (poetic) under
Old Norse
Etymology 1
Shortened form of undir
Preposition
und
- under
Derived terms
- unz
Etymology 2
From Proto-Germanic *wund? (“wound”).
Noun
und f (genitive undar, plural undir)
- (poetic) wound
Declension
Related terms
- unda (“to wound”) (undaðr (“wounded”))
Descendants
- Icelandic: und
- Old Swedish: und
- Danish: vunde (influenced by Low German)
References
- und in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
Old Saxon
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /und/
Preposition
und (with accusative)
- until
Conjunction
und
- until
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