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soonie, shoon, shunen verb to listen, hear 19-. Compare shannas etymology: from Romany shoon ‘to hear’; attested by BS in TDITA and BW, also collected by Joseph F G S Lucas and Rev John Baird from Kirk Yetholm Gypsies note:

Grellmann (1787) cites the forms ‘Sunjo’ ‘The Hearing’ and Ne ʃchunele ‘I do not see’ from Continental gipsies. Smart & Crofton (1875) collected the form Shoon v., ‘to hear, listen’ from English Gypsies.

Form shoon also attested by Canadian Paul Pope (2013) which he defines as ‘to hear’.