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Cun, cunne. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Cun, cunne v. Obs. (or ? dial.) [OE. cunnian, -ode, wk. vb., = OS. -cunnôn in gicunnon to learn to know:—OTeut. type *kunnojan, deriv. of kunnan to know (see CAN). Cf. the parallel deriv. forms, Gothic ga-kunnan, kunnaida, to learn to know, and OHG. chunnên, MHG. kunnen to learn to know, investigate, try, test. See also cunner, CONNER, ALE-CONNER, and CON v.]

1   In OE.: To learn to know, inquire into, explore, investigate; whence a. To have experience of, prove, test, try, make trial of (in OE. with genitive; in ME. sometimes with of); to taste. Obs. or ? dial.

2 Beowulf, 1021. Þær ʓit wada cunnedon.

3 c. 888.  K. Ælfred, Boeth., v. § 3. Mot ic nu cunnian hwon þinne fæstrædnesse?

4 a. 1000.  Crist, 1418 (Gr.). Uncuþne eard cunnnian.

5 a. 1000.  Sal. & Sat., 227 (Gr.). Cunnað dryhtnes meahta.

6 c. 1200.  Ormin, 834. Ne wollde het næfre cunnenn.

7 a. 1225.  Ancr. R., 114. He dude his deorewurðe muð þerto, & smeihte ant cunnede þerof.

8 1597.  Montgomerie, Cherrie & Slae, 646. They sall not than the Cherrie cun, That wald not enterpryse. [‘Still used in this sense in Dumfr.’ (Jamieson, 1808).]

9   † b.  To try to do something. Obs.

10 c. 1175.  Lamb. Hom., 151. Summe to kunnen if heo mihten him mid sunne undernime.

11 c. 1200.  Trin. Coll. Hom., 87. Swiche hertes … cunneð gif he mai þer inne herbergen.

12 c. 1200.  Ormin, 12137. He wollde cunnen swa To brinngenn inn hiss herrte Erþlike þingess lufe & lusst.

13 a. 1225.  St. Marher., 13. Heom þet cunnið to beon cleane.

14   c.  To get to know, to study or learn: see CON v.1 sense 3, of which examples spelt cun, cunne, come down nearly to 1600. In these there was probably a blending of the verbs cunnan, CAN, with this verb.

15 1425–1580.  [see CON v.1 3].

16 1668.  Maynwaring, Compl. Physitian, 67. He sits down and cuns his Lesson.

17
  Cun: see CAN v.1 and 2, CON v.1 and 2.

18   Cun (ü), obs. form of KIN.

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