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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/dungz
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰengʰ- (“to cover, hide, conceal”).
Noun
*dungz m or f[1]
- (West Germanic) cellar
Inflection
consonant stemDeclension of *dungz (consonant stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *dungz | *dungiz | |
vocative | *dung | *dungiz | |
accusative | *dungų | *dungunz | |
genitive | *dungiz | *dungǫ̂ | |
dative | *dungi | *dungumaz | |
instrumental | *dungē | *dungumiz |
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *dung
- Old English: dung, ding
- Middle English: donge, dung, dunge
- Old Saxon: dung
- Middle Low German: dunk, dunc
- Old Dutch: *dung, dunk (in placenames)
- Middle Dutch: donc
- Dutch: donk
- Middle Dutch: donc
- Old High German: tunc, tung
- Middle High German: tunc
- German: Tunk
- Middle High German: tunc
- Old English: dung, ding
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “dunga-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN