Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/dʰengʰ-

This Proto-Indo-European entry contains reconstructed terms 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-Indo-European

Root

*dʰengʰ-[1]

to cover
to overcast

Derived terms

Terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰengʰ-

*dʰéngʰ-e-ti (thematic root present)
- Proto-Indo-Iranian: *dʰángʰati
  - Proto-Indo-Aryan: *dángʰati
    - Sanskrit: दङ्घति (dáṅghati)
*dʰéngʰ-t ~ *dʰn̥gʰ-ént (athematic root aorist)
- Proto-Balto-Slavic:
  - Lithuanian: deñgo
  - ⇒ Proto-Balto-Slavic: [Term?] (ye-present)
    - Lithuanian: deñgti
  - ⇒ Proto-Balto-Slavic: [Term?] (sta-present)
    - Lithuanian: diñgti
*dʰn̥gʰ-eh₂yé-ti
- Proto-Germanic: *dungōną (“to cover”) (< *dungōjaną)
  - Proto-West Germanic: *dungōn
    - Middle Low German: dungen
  - Old Norse: *dunga
    - Faroese: dunga
    - Swedish: dunga
*dʰongʰ-éh₂
- Proto-Balto-Slavic: *dangā́ˀ (“cover; arc, rainbow”)
  - Latvian: danga
  - Lithuanian: dangà
  - Proto-Slavic: *dǫga (see there for further descendants)
*dʰn̥gʰ-éh₂, *dʰn̥gʰ-ó-s
- Proto-Germanic: *dungō f, *dungaz m (“dung, manure”) (see there for further descendants)
  - ⇒ *dungijaną (“to fertilize”); ⇒ *dungijǭ (“dunghill”) (see there for further descendants)
*dʰn̥gʰ-í-s
- Proto-Germanic: *dungiz (“cellar”) (see there for further descendants)
*dʰongʰ-o-s
- Proto-Albanian: *danga
  - Albanian: dëng (“full, stuffed”)

Unsorted formations

Proto-Balto-Slavic:
- Lithuanian: dangùs
- Old Prussian: dangus (“sky, heaven”)

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN