Fünen
noun
German name of Fyn.
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Fünen
American
[fy-nuhn]
/ ˈfü nən /
noun
Funen
British
/ ˈfuːnən /
noun
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Once Brecht settled with his family on the island of Fünen, in Denmark, he set to work in a whitewashed stable.
From The New Yorker • Apr. 3, 2019
The Danes were mainly in Jutland, Fünen, and the extreme south of Scandinavia.
From Bede's Ecclesiastical History of England by Bede, Cuthbert
I had hurried across the heath, and over Jutland's wood-girt eastern coast, and over the Island of Fünen, and now I drove over the Great Belt, groaning and sighing.
From What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales by Dulcken, H. W. (Henry William)
"Are you afraid of the water?" asked my brisk uncle from Fünen one day.
From Recollections of My Childhood and Youth by Brandes, Georg Morris Cohen
Belt, Great and Little, gateways of the Baltic: the Great between Zealand and Fünen, 15 m. broad; the Little, between Fünen and Jutland, half as broad; both 70 m. long, the former of great depth.
From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by Nuttall, P. Austin
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