pund

pund (plural punds)

1. Alternative form of pun (“measure of cowries”).

From Old Norse pund, from Proto-Germanic *pundą, cognate with English pound, German Pfund. An early loan from Latin pondō (“by weight”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʰunˀ]
• Rhymes: -unˀ

pund n (singular definite pundet, plural indefinite pund)

1. pound (currency)
2. (historical or referring to foreign cultures) pound (unit of mass, usually between 350 and 500 g; 496 g in Denmark before 1839)
3. half a kilo (informal unit of mass, mostly used of foods or the weight of people)

• “pund” in Den Danske Ordbog

From Old Norse pund, from Proto-Germanic *pundą, from Latin pondo.

• IPA^(key): /pʰʊnt/

  Rhymes: -ʊnt

pund n (genitive singular punds, plural pund)

1. pound (weight or currency)

• skálpund n
• lispund n
• skippund n
• tvípund n

pund

1. romanization of 𐍀𐌿𐌽𐌳

From Old Norse pund, from Proto-Germanic *pundą.

• IPA^(key): /pʰʏnt/
• Rhymes: -ʏnt

pund n (genitive singular punds, nominative plural pund)

1. pound (unit of weight / mass)
   1. a traditional unit in Iceland (standardized at 498 grams or, informally, 500 g), 12 merkur
   2. various similar units from other areas, most commonly the avoirdupois pound (453.59237 g)
2. pound (unit of currency)
3. (uncountable) wealth, possessions
4. (uncountable, figurative) talents, gifts; merit, worth

pund

1. alternative form of pound

From Old Norse pund, from Latin pondus.

pund n (definite singular pundet, indefinite plural pund, definite plural punda or pundene)

1. a pound (monetary unit in the United Kingdom, Egypt, etc.)
2. a pound (former unit of weight in Norway, the term is still used for pound weights in other contexts)

• “pund” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse pund, from Latin pondus.

• IPA^(key): /pʉnː(d)/
• (esp. weight unit): IPA^(key): /puɲː/ (dialects with palatalization)

pund n (definite singular pundet, indefinite plural pund, definite plural punda)

1. a pound (monetary unit in the United Kingdom, Egypt, etc.)
2. a pound (former unit of weight in Norway)

• “pund” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-West Germanic *pund, from Proto-Germanic *pundą, from Latin pondus.

• IPA^(key): /pund/

pund n

1. pound (weight or currency)
   • c. 994, Ælfric, On the Year

     Ǣlċe mōnað hēo yrnð under ān þǣra tacna. Ān þǣra tacna ys ġehāten aries, þæt is ramm; oðer taurus, þæt is fearr; ðridda gemini, þæt synd ġetwisan; fēorða cancer, þæt is crabba; fīfta leo; syxta virgo, þæt is mǣden; seofoða libra, þæt is pund orde wǣġe; eahtoðe scorpius, þæt is þrōwend; nigoða is sagittarius, þæt is sċytta; teoða ys capricornus, þæt is buccan horn, oððe bucca; endlyfta is aquarius, þæt is wæter-ġyte, oððe þe þe wæter ġyt; twelfte is pisces, þæt synd fixas.

     Each month runs under one of the signs [of the Zodiac]. The first of the signs is called aries, that is "ram"; the second is taurus, that is "bull"; the third is gemini, that is "twins"; the fourth is cancer, that is "crab"; the fifth is lion; the sixth is virgo, that is "virgin"; the seventh is libra, that is "pound" or "scales"; eighth is scorpious, that is "scorpion"; ninth is sagittarius, that is "shooter"; tenth is capricornus, that is "he-goat's horn" or "he-goat"; eleventh is aquarius, that is "pouring water" or "one that pours water"; twelfth is pisces, that is "fishes."

• Middle English: pund, punde, pounde, pound
  • English: pound

    Northumbrian: pund

  • → Middle Irish: punt
    • Irish: punt
    • Manx: punt
  • Scots: pund, poond
• → Middle Welsh: punt
  • Welsh: punt

From Old Swedish pund, from Old Norse pund, from Proto-Germanic *pundą, from Latin pondo.

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pund n

1. a pound (unit of mass)
2. a pound (currency), capital, resources

• lispund
• pundare
• skålpund
• skeppund

• pund in Svensk ordbok.
• pund in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)