Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/dunstą

This Proto-Germanic 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-Germanic

Alternative reconstructions

  • *dunstiz

Etymology

Per Kroonen, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuns-to-, from a nasal-infix zero-grade of *dʰwes- (“dust, spirit”), and cognate with Tocharian B tänts- (“to scatter”), Sanskrit ध्वंसति (dhváṁsati, “he falls to dust”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdun.stɑ̃/

Noun

*dunstą n

  1. mist, haze
  2. evaporation
  3. dust

Inflection

Declension of *dunstą (neuter a-stem)
singular plural
nominative *dunstą *dunstō
vocative *dunstą *dunstō
accusative *dunstą *dunstō
genitive *dunstas, *dunstis *dunstǫ̂
dative *dunstai *dunstamaz
instrumental *dunstō *dunstamiz

Descendants

  • Old English: dūst, dust
    • Middle English: dust, doust
  • Old Frisian: dūst
  • Old Saxon: *dunst, *dūst
    • Middle Low German: donst, dûst
      • Low German:
        • German Low German: Dunst, Duust
        • Westphalian:
          Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Dunst
          Suerländer-Märkisch: Dûst
          Westmünsterländisch: Donst, Doonst, Doost, Dunst
      • Plautdietsch: Donst
      • → Swedish: dunst
  • Old Dutch: *dunst, *dūst
    • Middle Dutch: dunst, donst, doest, (possibly borrowed) duust
  • Old High German: tunist, dunist, dunst
    • Middle High German: tunst, dunst
      • German: Dunst
      • Hunsrik: Dunst
      • Luxembourgish: Donst
      • Rhine Franconian:
        Frankfurterisch: IPA [d̥und̥st]

References

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*dunsta-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 109
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