Dun

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

DUN

adj. DUN, a colour partaking of brown and black; fuscus, aquĭlus :-- Dun fuscus, Cot. 141, 147: natius [ = nātīvus?], Ælfc. Gl. 79; Som. 72, 86; Wrt. Voc. 46, 43. Dunn balidus [ = βαλιόs?], Wrt. Voc. 289, 28. On ðone [MS. ðonne] dunnan stán to the dun stone, Cod. Dipl. 1120; A.D. 939; Kmbl. Chauc. dunne, donne dark-coloured: Ir. dunn a dun colour: Wel. dwn dun, swarthy, dusky: Gael. donn brown-coloured.] DER. asse-dun. dun

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