pund
Danish
[ˈpʰunˀ]
noun
Definitions
- pound currency
- (historical) pound unit of mass, usually between 350 and 500 g, 496 g in Denmark before 1839
- half a kilo informal unit of mass, mostly used of foods or the weight of people
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse pund derived from Proto-Germanic *pundą (weight, pound) derived from Latin pondō (by weight).
Origin
Latin
pondō
Gloss
by weight
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- geepound English
- impound English
- kilopound English
- multipound English
- petropound English
- pinfold English
- pound English
- poundable English
- poundage English
- poundal English
- pounder English
- poundkeeper English
- poundmaker English
- poundmaster English
- shorepound English
- tenpounder English
- pauna Finnish
- pondo Latin
- pondus Latin
- pondō Latin
- Pfund German
- Pfundskerl German
- pfundig German
- font Hungarian
- фунт Russian
- *pend- Proto-Indo-European
- pund Norwegian Bokmål
- *pundą Proto-Germanic
- pund Norwegian Nynorsk
- pund Old English
- pound Middle English
- pund Old Norse
- पाउंड Hindi
- पौंड Hindi
- ปอนด์ Thai
- pfunt Old High German
- ponndadh Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- punnd Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic
- pund Faroese
- pao Vietnamese
- pfunt Middle High German
- 𐍀𐌿𐌽𐌳 Gothic
- punt Old Dutch
- *punta Proto-Finnic
- পাউণ্ড Assamese
- 磅 Chinese
- paundi Swahili
- pauni Swahili
- pund Old Swedish
- 파운드 Korean
- ផោន Central Khmer
- fam Hausa