shuns is a form of:

Levant



ENGLISH MEANING
noun
1.
The countries washed by the eastern part of the Mediterranean and its contiguous waters.
2.
A levanter (the wind so called).
adjective
1.
Rising or having risen from rest; -- said of cattle.
verb
1.
(INTRANSITIVE) To run away from one's debts; to decamp.
1.
Eastern