dune

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See also: dune-, duŋe, Düne, and dűne

English

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Dunes in Namibia

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Partly from a dialectal form of down; and partly from French dune (from Old French dune), or from Middle Dutch dūne (modern Dutch duin), or from Middle Low German dûne; all ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *dūn, *dūnā, probably from Proto-Celtic *dūnom (stronghold, rampart), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuHnom (enclosure), from *dʰewh₂- (to finish, come full circle). Doublet of down (which see). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

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dune (plural dunes)

  1. (geomorphology) A ridge or hill of sand piled up by currents of wind or water.
    • 1975, Texas A & M University. College of Geosciences, Contributions in Oceanography:
      Heavy line segments (lengthened for clarity) indicate locations of deep-sea dunes.
    • 2021 February 23, Etienne Guyon, Jose Bico, Etienne Reyssat, Benoit Roman, Hidden Wonders: The Subtle Dialogue Between Physics and Elegance, MIT Press, →ISBN, page 257:
      In the early 2000s, space probes [confirmed Mars as] having dunes [] Their shapes are identical to their Saharan cousins', but they are ten times bigger. In contrast, underwater dunes are a hundred times smaller than their counterparts on solid ground. This universality of dunes is a blessing for physicists: their comparative study confirmed the models that describe the formation of dunes on Earth.

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French

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Etymology

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Inherited from Middle French dune, from Old French dune, from Middle Dutch dūne (modern Dutch duin), from Old Dutch dūn, dūno, from Proto-West Germanic *dūnā (hill), of uncertain origin. More at Proto-West Germanic *dūnā.

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dune f (plural dunes)

  1. dune

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  • Catalan: duna
  • Portuguese: duna

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Friulian

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dune f (plural dunis)

  1. dune

Italian

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈdu.ne/
  • Rhymes: -une
  • Hyphenation: dù‧ne

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dune f pl

  1. plural of duna

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Middle English

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dune

  1. Alternative form of dynne

Old English

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dūne

  1. inflection of dūn:
    1. accusative/genitive/dative singular
    2. nominative/accusative plural

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dune (Cyrillic spelling дуне)

  1. third-person singular present of dunuti