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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/dusāną
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰews- (“to lose one's senses”).
Verb
*dusāną[1]
- to be stunned, swoon
- to be dizzy
- to slumber
Inflection
Conjugation of *dusāną (weak class 3)
active voice | passive voice | ||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
1st singular | *dusō | ? | — | ? | ? |
2nd singular | *dusaisi | ? | *dusai | *dusāsai | ? |
3rd singular | *dusaiþi | ? | *dusāþau | *dusāþai | ? |
1st dual | *dusōs | ? | — | — | — |
2nd dual | *dusāþiz | ? | *dusāþiz | — | — |
1st plural | *dusāmaz | ? | — | *dusānþai | ? |
2nd plural | *dusaiþ | ? | *dusaiþ | *dusānþai | ? |
3rd plural | *dusānþi | ? | *dusānþau | *dusānþai | ? |
past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
1st singular | *dusadǭ | *dusadēdį̄ | |||
2nd singular | *dusadēz | *dusadēdīz | |||
3rd singular | *dusadē | *dusadēdī | |||
1st dual | *dusadēdū | *dusadēdīw | |||
2nd dual | *dusadēdudiz | *dusadēdīdiz | |||
1st plural | *dusadēdum | *dusadēdīm | |||
2nd plural | *dusadēdud | *dusadēdīd | |||
3rd plural | *dusadēdun | *dusadēdīn | |||
present | past | ||||
participles | *dusāndz | *dusadaz |
Related terms
- *deuzą
- *deuzaz
- *dūsōną
- *dwēsaz
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *dusēn
- Old English: *dusian, *dosian (possibly from Old Norse dusa or dúsa)
- Middle English: *dosen
- English: doze, dose
- Middle English: *dosen
- Old Frisian: dusia
- ⇒ Old Frisian: dusinge
- Old Saxon: *dusian, *dosian
- Middle Low German: dusen, dǖsen, dosen, deusen
- ⇒ Middle Low German: dǖsinge
- ⇒ Middle Low German: bedǖsen
- Middle Low German: dusen, dǖsen, dosen, deusen
- Old English: *dusian, *dosian (possibly from Old Norse dusa or dúsa)
- Old Norse: *dusa, dúsa
- Icelandic: dúsa, dusa
- Norwegian: duse
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*dusēn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 111