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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/dūbǭ

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

Etymology

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk; smoke; make obscure”). According to Kroonen, derived from Proto-Germanic *dūbaną (“to dive; to sink”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈduː.βɔ̃ː/

Noun

*dūbǭ f

  1. dove, pigeon

Inflection
ōn-stemDeclension of *dūbǭ (ōn-stem)
singular plural
nominative *dūbǭ *dūbōniz
vocative *dūbǭ *dūbōniz
accusative *dūbōnų *dūbōnunz
genitive *dūbōniz *dūbōnǫ̂
dative *dūbōni *dūbōmaz
instrumental *dūbōnē *dūbōmiz

Descendants
  • Proto-West Germanic: *dūbā
    • Old English: *dūfe
      • Middle English: douve, dove, duve, dowve, dowe, doufe, douf
        • English: dove
        • Scots: doo, dow
    • Old Frisian: *dūve, *dūe
      • Saterland Frisian: Dúve
      • West Frisian: do
    • Old Saxon: dūva
      • Middle Low German: dūve
        • Low German:
          • German Low German: Duuv
          • Dutch Low Saxon: duve, doeve
          • Plautdietsch: Duw, Düw, Duuv, Düüv, Duuw, Düüw, Duv, Düv
        • → Estonian: tuvi
    • Old Dutch: dūva
      • Middle Dutch: duve
        • Dutch: duif
          • Afrikaans: duif
          • Negerhollands: dufje, difi, diffie
          • → Sranan Tongo: doifi
        • Limburgish: doef
    • Old High German: tūba; (West Central German) dūva
      • Middle High German: tūbe, dūve
        • Bavarian: Taubm, Daum, Taubn
        • Alemannic German: Tuub, Duub; Duube; Düüwe; Daup; Taub; Tuube; Tube; Tubo
        • German: Taube
        • Central Franconian: Duuv, Dauv
        • Rhine Franconian: daup, dǫup
          • Pennsylvania German: Daub
        • Swabian: Taub, Daup
        • Vilamovian: tue, taoj
        • Yiddish: טויב (toyb)
  • Old Norse: dúfa
    • Icelandic: dúfa
    • Faroese: dúgva, dúva
    • Norwegian Bokmål: due
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: due
    • Old Swedish: dūva
    • Old Danish: dufæ
    • Scanian: dâwwa
  • Gothic: *𐌳𐌿𐌱𐍉 (*dubō)

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “dūbōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 106
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