Mund

• IPA^(key): /mʊnt/
• Rhymes: -ʊnt

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From Middle High German munt, from Old High German mund, from Proto-West Germanic *munþ, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *men-.

Cognate with Low German Mund, Dutch mond, English mouth, Danish mund.

Mund m (strong, genitive Mundes or Munds, plural Münder, diminutive Mündchen n or Mündlein n)

1. mouth of a person

• Maul, mouth of an animal

From an earlier Munt, from Middle High German and Old High German munt, from Proto-Germanic *mundō.

The retention of /d/ in the combination /nd/ is a signature of northern High German dialects and only becomes widespread after a period in the Middle Ages where the southern reflex /nt/ is favoured in southern writings.

Mund f (genitive Mund, plural Munde)

1. (obsolete) hand
2. (obsolete) legal protection

• Due to conflation with the masculine noun, combined nouns based on this one are also masculine.

• Vormund, mündig, entmündigen
• Morgenstund hat Gold im Mund (originally in Mund)

• “Mund (Öffnung, Lippen, Schlund)” in Duden online
• “Mund (Gewalt, Macht)” in Duden online
• “Mund” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
• “Mund” in Uni Leipzig: Wortschatz-Lexikon
• “Mund” in OpenThesaurus.de
• Mund on the German Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^de
• Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Mund”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891

From Middle High German munt, from Old High German mund, from Proto-West Germanic *munþ, from Proto-Germanic *munþaz, from Proto-Indo-European *men-.

• IPA^(key): /munt/

Mund m (plural Munde, diminutive Mundche)

1. mouth

• Mundfeil

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary