dun
Meaning
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A brownish grey colour.
Synonyms
grayish brown
bill collector
greyish brown
donkey-gray
dun-colored
dun for debts
grayish brown
dust colour
dark brown
dun-coloured
greyish-brown
bill collection
gray-brown
grey-brown
blue-dun
an importunate creditor
dark brown color
darkish brown
dun horse
light bay
copper-coloured
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Pronounced as (IPA)
/dʌn/
Etymology
From Middle English dun, dunne, from Old English dunn (“dun, dingy brown, bark-colored, brownish black”), from Proto-Germanic *dusnaz (“brown, yellow”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust”). Cognate with Old Saxon dun (“brown, dark”), Old High German tusin (“ash-gray, dull brown, pale yellow, dark”), Old Norse dunna (“female mallard; duck”). Alternative etymology derives the Old English word from Brythonic (compare Middle Welsh dwnn (“dark (red)”)), from Proto-Celtic *dusnos (compare Old Irish donn and Scottish Gaelic donn (“brown”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰews- (compare Old Saxon dosan (“chestnut brown”)). More at dusk.
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