gunn

See also: Gunn

Manx

Alternative forms

• gun, gunney

Etymology

From Middle Irish gunna, from Middle English gunne.

Noun

gunn m (genitive singular gunney or gunn, plural gunnyn or gunnaghyn)

1. gun

Derived terms

• baatey gunn
• cadee gunney
• carriads gunney
• fo-vasheengunn
• gun bwoalltane
• gunn geayee
• gunn jeshaght
• gunn mooar
• gunn spreih
• gunney laagh
• gunney magheragh
• gunney raauee
• gunney smarrey
• leuys-gunn
• meain ghunney
• punt-ghunn

 

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
gunn	ghunn	ngunn
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse gunnr, guðr, from Proto-Germanic *gunþiz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰéntis (“act of killing, blow”), from *gʷʰen- (“to strike, kill”).

Noun

gunn f

1. battle (only used in given names)

   Synonyms: strid, ufred

Related terms

Female given names:

• Arngunn
• Audgunn
• Frøygunn
• Gunn
• Gunna
• Gunnbjørg
• Gunnfrid, Gunnrid
• Gunngjerd
• Gunnheid
• Gunnhild
• Gunnlaug
• Gunnlod
• Gunntora
• Gunntrud
• Gunnveig
• Gunnvor
• Gunny
• Hergunn
• Hildegunn
• Hjørgunn
• Ingegunn
• Ladgunn
• Legunn
• Modgunn
• Olgunn
• Torgunn
• Vegunn
• Åsgunn

 

Male given names:

• Gunnar
• Gunnbjørn
• Gunndjarv
• Gunne
• Gunnfast
• Gunnfrød, Gunnrød
• Gunnfus
• Gunnkjell
• Gunnkvat
• Gunnleik
• Gunnleiv
• Gunnmar
• Gunnmund
• Gunnolv, Gunnulv
• Gunnrek
• Gunnstein
• Gunntjov
• Gunntor
• Gunnvald, Gunnald
• Gunnvar
• Gunnvard
• Gunnvid

 

References

• Eivind Vågslid (1988) Norderlendske fyrenamn (in Norwegian Nynorsk), →ISBN, page 148
• “gunn” in Ivar Aasen (1873) Norsk Ordbog med dansk Forklaring