"undern" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: From Middle English undern, ondern, from Old English undern (“third hour of the day; nine o'clock; morning”), from Proto-Germanic *undurniz (“interval”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥ter, *h₁enter (“between”). Cognate with dialectal Dutch onder, dialectal German Untern, dialectal Swedish undarn. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|undern}} Middle English undern, {{inh|en|ang|undern||third hour of the day; nine o'clock; morning}} Old English undern (“third hour of the day; nine o'clock; morning”), {{inh|en|gem-pro|*undurniz||interval}} Proto-Germanic *undurniz (“interval”), {{inh|en|ine-pro|*h₁n̥ter}} Proto-Indo-European *h₁n̥ter, {{cog|nl|onder}} Dutch onder, {{cog|de|Untern}} German Untern, {{cog|sv|undarn}} Swedish undarn Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} undern (uncountable)
  1. (obsolete) Synonym of terce: the third hour of daylight (about 9 am). Tags: obsolete, uncountable Synonyms: terce [synonym, synonym-of]
    Sense id: en-undern-en-noun-LZeQmR6f
  2. (obsolete) Synonym of noon: the sixth hour of daylight (12 pm). Tags: obsolete, uncountable Synonyms: noon [synonym, synonym-of] Synonyms (noon): meridian
    Sense id: en-undern-en-noun-X3yYrxgD Disambiguation of 'noon': 8 41 19 20 12
  3. (UK, dialectal) Synonym of afternoon. Tags: UK, dialectal, uncountable Categories (topical): Times of day Synonyms: afternoon [synonym, synonym-of] Synonyms (afternoon): arvo
    Sense id: en-undern-en-noun-pdlT0oCs Disambiguation of Times of day: 13 14 37 22 14 Categories (other): British English, English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Old English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries, Terms with French translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 9 12 46 20 13 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 8 8 64 11 9 Disambiguation of Old English entries with incorrect language header: 8 13 32 20 13 1 12 0 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 6 7 34 10 8 3 30 2 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 4 5 39 7 5 2 36 2 Disambiguation of Terms with French translations: 10 11 55 14 10 Disambiguation of 'afternoon': 5 9 45 13 28
  4. (UK, dialectal) Synonym of evening. Tags: UK, dialectal, uncountable Synonyms: evening [synonym, synonym-of] Synonyms (evening): eventide
    Sense id: en-undern-en-noun-P4uL0NWk Categories (other): British English Disambiguation of 'evening': 5 9 14 63 9
  5. (UK, dialectal) A light meal, particularly in the afternoon. Tags: UK, dialectal, uncountable Synonyms (light meal): snack Translations (light meal): casse-croûte (english: morning) [masculine] (French), goûter (english: afternoon) [masculine] (French)
    Sense id: en-undern-en-noun-5E3EB7tZ Categories (other): British English Disambiguation of 'light meal': 3 3 0 0 94 Disambiguation of 'light meal': 3 3 0 0 94
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: sext, midday, afternoon, evening, underne, undirn Derived forms: andersmeat, half undern, high undern, undermeal, undern-bell, undern-song, underntide, undertide, whole undern

Alternative forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-20 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (ee63ee9 and 4230888). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.