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Begun
//bɪˈɡʌn// name, verb
Definitions
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Verb
- 1 past participle of begin form-of, participle, past
"... when he should take the sield, that city was persuaded to complete the regiment they had begun to form, under the command of a Colonel whom the King had recommended to them ; which they did raise to the number of a thousand men."
- 2 simple past of begin form-of, nonstandard, obsolete, past
"When we've been there ten thousand years, Bright shining as the sun, We've no less days to sing God's praise, Than when we first begun."
Etymology
Two possible origins: * Borrowed from Russian бегу́н (begún, “runner”), a nickname used in the local Jewish community. Doublet of Biegun and Bihun, from Polish and Ukrainian respectively. * A variant of Begum, an Indian surname found in the Muslim community.
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