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fun

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Translingual

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fun

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Fulniô.

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English

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Etymology

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From Middle English fonne, fon (“foolish, simple, silly”) or fonnen (“make a fool of”), from Middle English fonne (“a fool, dupe”), probably of North Germanic origin, related to Swedish fånig (“foolish”), Swedish fåne (“a fool”), from Old Norse fáni (“vain person, swaggerer”), but of unknown ultimate origin. Perhaps related to or influenced by fjäll (“rock, cliff, mountain”).[1] Compare also English fumble, Norwegian Nynorsk fomme (“clumsy fool”).

Compare also Norwegian fomme, fume (“a fool”). More at fon, fond.

As a noun, fun is recorded from 1700, with a meaning “a cheat, trick, hoax”, from a verb fun meaning “to cheat, trick” (1680s). The meaning “diversion, amusement” dates to the 1720s. The older meaning is preserved in the phrase to make fun of (1737) and in usage of the adjective funny. The use of fun as adjective is newest and is due to reanalysis of the noun; this was incipient in the mid-19th century.

Alternative etymology connected Middle English fonne with Old Frisian fonna, fone, fomne, variant forms of fāmne, fēmne (“young woman, virgin”), from Proto-West Germanic *faimnijā, from Proto-Germanic *faimnijǭ (“maiden”), from Proto-Indo-European *peymen- (“girl”), *poymen- (“breast milk”). If so, then cognate with Old English fǣmne (“maid, virgin, damsel, bride”), West Frisian famke (“girl”), Saterland Frisian fone, fon (“woman, maid, servant," also "weakling, simpleton”).

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Noun

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fun (uncountable)

  1. Amusement, enjoyment or pleasure.
    Synonyms: amusement, diversion, enjoyment, a laugh, pleasure
    • 2000, Robert Stanley, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Adobe Photoshop 6, Alpha Books, page 377:
      Grafting your boss's face onto the hind end of a donkey is fun, but serious fun is when you create the impossible and it looks real.
  2. Playful, often noisy, activity.
    Synonyms: boisterousness, horseplay, rough and tumble

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Adjective

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fun (comparative more fun or (informal) funner, superlative most fun or (informal) funnest)

  1. Enjoyable or amusing.
    We had a fun time at the party.
    He is such a fun person to be with.
  2. (informal) Whimsical or flamboyant.
    This year's fashion style is much more fun than recent seasons.

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Verb

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fun (third-person singular simple present funs, present participle funning, simple past and past participle funned)

  1. (colloquial) To tease, kid, poke fun at, make fun of.
    Hey, don't get bent out of shape over it; I was just funning you.

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etymologically unrelated multiword terms containing "fun"

References

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  1. ^ “fun”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy]‎[1] (in Swedish), 1937

Anagrams

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Chibcha

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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fun

  1. alternative form of bun

References

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  • Gómez Aldana D. F., Análisis morfológico del Vocabulario 158 de la Biblioteca Nacional de Colombia. Grupo de Investigación Muysccubun. 2013.

French

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Etymology

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    Borrowed from English fun.

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    Adjective

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    fun (invariable)

    1. (colloquial) fun
      C'était juste pour le fun.
      It was just for fun.
      Il a l'air fun.
      It looks fun.

    Galician

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    Etymology 1

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    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Verb

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    fun

    1. first-person singular preterite indicative of ir

    Etymology 2

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    See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

    Verb

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    fun

    1. first-person singular preterite indicative of ser

    Hunsrik

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    Alternative forms

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    • funn (Altenhofen spelling)

    Etymology

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    From Middle High German von (“from”), from Old High German fon, fona (“from”), from Proto-Germanic *fanē (“from”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂pó (“off”).

    Cognate with German vom and Luxembourgish vun.

    Pronunciation

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    • IPA(key): /ˈfun/
    • Rhymes: -un
    • Syllabification: fun

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    fun [with dative]

    1. of; expressing possession
      Das Haus fun de Fraa
      The house of the woman
    2. from; used to indicate source or provenance
      Ich sin fun Hambeuch
      I'm from Hamburg.
    3. from; used to indicate a starting point or initial reference
      Sie schaffe fun heit bis moie
      They will work from today to tomorrow.
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    References

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    • Boll, Piter Kehoma (2021), “fun”, in Dicionário Hunsriqueano Riograndense–Português, 3rd edition (overall work in Portuguese), Ivoti: Riograndenser Hunsrickisch, page 61, column 1

    Japanese

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    Romanization

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    fun

    1. Rōmaji transcription of ふん
    2. Rōmaji transcription of フン

    Scots

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    Pronunciation

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    Noun

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    fun (plural funs)

    1. Doric Scots form of whin (“gorse, furze”)

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    Tboli

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    Noun

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    fun

    1. owner

    Yoruba

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    Verb

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    fún

    1. give
    2. choke, squeeze, strangle, throttle
    3. scatter, strew
    4. sew

    Preposition

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    fún

    1. for, on behalf of
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