< Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic
Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/duniz
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰún-is, from *dʰwen- (“to roar; boom; resound”). Cognate with Sanskrit ध्वन् (dhúni, “sounding”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdu.niz/
Noun
*duniz m
- sound; noise
Inflection
i-stemDeclension of *duniz (i-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *duniz | *dunīz | |
vocative | *duni | *dunīz | |
accusative | *dunį | *duninz | |
genitive | *dunīz | *dunjǫ̂ | |
dative | *dunī | *dunimaz | |
instrumental | *dunī | *dunimiz |
Derived terms
- *dunjaną
Descendants
- Old English: dyne, dyn
- Middle English: dune, dyne, dene, dine, dyn
- Scots: dyn, din
- English: dun, din
- Middle English: dune, dyne, dene, dine, dyn
- Old Saxon: *duni
- Middle Low German: done, döne, don
- Old Dutch: *duni
- Middle Dutch: done, doon, deune
- Dutch: deun
- Middle Dutch: done, doon, deune
- Old High German: tuni, (Central German) *duni
- Middle High German: tōn, dōn, dōne, dœne (merged with a borrowing from Latin tonus)
- German: Ton
- Middle High German: tōn, dōn, dōne, dœne (merged with a borrowing from Latin tonus)
- Old Norse: dynr m
- Icelandic: dynur m
- Faroese: dynur m
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: dønn n
- Norwegian Nynorsk: døn n, dønn n
- Old Swedish: dyn m
- Swedish: dön n, dån n
- Danish: døn n
- Westrobothnian: døn m