Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/dustą

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰewes-, *dʰews-, *dʰwAn-, *dʰūw- (“to smoke, raise dust”). Cognate with Latin fūmus (“smoke, steam”).

Noun

*dustą n

dust

Inflection

neuter a-stemDeclension of *dustą (neuter a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*dustą	*dustō
vocative	*dustą	*dustō
accusative	*dustą	*dustō
genitive	dustas, dustis	*dustǫ̂
dative	*dustai	*dustamaz
instrumental	*dustō	*dustamiz

Related terms

*dauniz
*dūnaz
*dunstą

Descendants

Old English: dust
- Middle English: dust, doust
  - English: dust
  - Scots: dust, dist
Old Frisian: dust
Old Saxon: dust
- Middle Low German: dust
  - German: Dust
Old Dutch: *dust
- Middle Dutch: dust, dost
  - Dutch: duist
Old Norse: dust
- Icelandic: dust
- Faroese: dust
- Norwegian: dust
- Swedish: dust
- Danish: dyst