shun
English
/ʃʌn/
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To avoid, especially persistently.
- (transitive) To escape (a threatening evil, an unwelcome task etc).
- (transitive) To screen, hide.
- (transitive) To shove, push.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English shǒnen, shonen (decline to do, fear, avoid, dislike, hate, escape, abandon, refuse, forsake, be wary of, be afraid, disdain) inherited from Old English scunian derived from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewdʰ- (encase, wrap, cover, hide, conceal).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*(s)kewdʰ-
Gloss
encase, wrap, cover, hide, conceal
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
🎁 🫔 🌯
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- scunner English
- scunnered English
- scunnersome English
- shunless English
- shunnable English
- shunner English
- shunnest English
- shunworthy English
- unshunnable English
- κεύθω Ancient Greek
- ἐπικεύθω Ancient Greek
- *(s)kew- Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)kewdʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *hudjǭ Proto-Germanic
- *hūdijaną Proto-Germanic
- behydan Old English
- forhydan Old English
- hȳdan Old English
- scunian Old English
- hiden Middle English
- shunden Middle English
- shunten Middle English
- shǒnen, shonen Middle English
- *koudeti Proto-Celtic
- *kustots Proto-Italic
- scunner Scots