dune

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• /djuːn/ non-yod-coalescence
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• /d͡ʒuːn/ yod-coalescence
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• homophone: June stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn
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• /dun/ yod-dropping
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• /dɪu̯n/ Wales, Ottawa Valley
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Partly from a dialectal form of down; and partly from Dutch duin (from Middle Dutch dune) or from Middle Low German dûne; all ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *dūn, *dūnā, of uncertain origin; possibly from Proto-Celtic *dūnom (“stronghold, rampart”), from Proto-Indo-European *dhuHnom (“enclosure”), from *dhewh2- (“to finish, come full circle”). Doublet of down (which see).

102 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: dunë — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Arabic: كَثِيب (kaṯīb) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Arabic: غُرْد (ḡurd) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Armenian: դյուն (dyun) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Armenian: ավազաթումբ (avazatʻumb) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Azerbaijani: barxan — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Azerbaijani: dyun — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Basque: duna — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Belarusian: дзю́на (dzjúna) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Belarusian: барха́н (barxán) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Bulgarian: дю́на (djúna) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Catalan: duna — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Chinese Cantonese: 沙丘 (saa1 jau1) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Chinese Mandarin: 沙丘 (shāqiū) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Czech: duna — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Danish: klit — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Dutch: duin — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Esperanto: duno — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Estonian: luide — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Estonian: düün — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Estonian: tuiskliivahang — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Faroese: sandheyggjur — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Faroese: sandfonn — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Finnish: dyyni — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• French: dune — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Galician: duna — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Georgian: დიუნა (diuna) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• German: Düne — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• German: Sanddüne — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Greek: αμμόλοφος (ammólofos) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Greek: θίνα (thína) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Gujarati: ઢૂવો (ḍhūvo) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Hindi: टिब्बा (ṭibbā) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Hindi: बालुकूट (bālukūṭ) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Hungarian: dűne — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Hungarian: bucka — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Icelandic: sandhóll — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Ido: duno — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Indonesian: gumuk — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Irish: dumhach — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Italian: duna — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Japanese: 砂丘 (sakyū) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Kazakh: барқан (barqan) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Kazakh: дөң (döñ) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Kazakh: құм төбе (qūm töbe) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Khmer: ខ្សាច់នារ (khsac niə) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Khmer: ផ្នូក (phnouk) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Khmer: ផ្នូរខ្សាច់ (phnou khsac) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Korean: 둔 (dun) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Korean: 둔덕 (dundeok) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Korean: 둔치 (dunchi) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Korean: 모래톱 (moraetop) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Korean: 사구 (sagu) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Kyrgyz: бархан (barhan) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Lao: ເນີນຊາຍ (nœ̄n sāi) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Lao: ແຊນຫາດ (sǣn hāt) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Latvian: kāpa — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Lithuanian: kopa — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Livonian: kȭnka — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Macedonian: дина (dina) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Malay: gumuk — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Māori: refers to dunes — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Māori: taipū — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Māori: tāhuahua — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Mongolian: манх (manx) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Mongolian: манхан (manxan) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Norman: mielle — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Norwegian: dyne — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Pannonian Rusyn: дина (dina) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Pashto: برهانه (borhāná) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Persian: تلماسه (talmâse) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Persian: ماهور (mâhur) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Plautdietsch: Sauntdien — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Polish: wydma — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Polish: diuna — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Portuguese: duna — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Romanian: dună — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Russian: дю́на (djúna) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Russian: барха́н (barxán) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Serbo-Croatian: ди́не — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Serbo-Croatian: díne — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Slovak: duna — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Slovene: sipina — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Spanish: duna — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Spanish: médano — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Spanish: mégano — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Swahili: tuta la mchanga — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Swedish: dyn — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Tajik: хомаи рег (xoma-yi reg) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Tajik: моҳур (mohur) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Thai: เนินทราย (nəən-saai) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Tibetan: བྱེ་རི (bye ri) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Turkish: kumul — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Turkmen: aňňat — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Ukrainian: дю́на (djúna) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Ukrainian: барха́н (barxán) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Uyghur: بارخان (barxan) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Uyghur: قۇم بارخىنى (qum barxini) — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Uzbek: barxan — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Uzbek: qumtepa — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Vietnamese: đụn cát — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind
• Vietnamese: cồn cát — a ridge or hill of sand piled up by the wind