schun

From Old High German scōno.

• IPA^(key): /ʃun/

schun

1. (most dialects) already

• The word is dominant is southern Moselle Franconian, whereas in northern Moselle Franconian and Ripuarian it is a less common, though not rare, synonym of allt, att.

• schunn (Altenhofen spelling)

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃun/
• Rhymes: -un
• Syllabification: schun

schun

1. already

   Ich sin schun mied.

   I am already tired.

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

• schin, schone, schune, schyn, schynne, shonne, shuln, shulne
• xun (East Anglia)

A syncopic form of schulen; the deletion of /l/ is paralleled the pronunciation of modern English should (already occasionally schude in Middle English).

schun

1. present indicative/subjunctive plural of schulen