dudum

Albanian

Etymology

From *dum-dum, root doubling of Proto-Albanian *dubna, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, smoke, darken, obscure”). Close to Old Norse dumbr (“dumb”), German dumm (“dumb, stupid”), Greek τυφλός (tyflós, “blind”).

Noun

dudum m

  1. dumb, stupid, foolish person

Latin

Etymology

From Proto-Italic *dūdom, from base *dū, of unclear origin. De Vaan suggests it is related to dūrus, from PIE *dweh₂- (“far, long”), and therefore cognate with Ancient Greek δήν (dḗn, “for a long time, long ago”) and Proto-Slavic *davě (“long ago”) (whence *davьnъ (“ancient”)).[1] Per Lewis and Short, from diū + dum.

Pronunciation

Adverb

dūdum (not comparable)

  1. a short time ago, a little while ago, not long since
  2. before, formerly, previously

References
  1. De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “dūdum”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 181

Further reading
  • “dudum”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • dudum in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

Romani

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Armenian դդում (ddum).[1]

Noun

dudum m (nominative plural duduma)

  1. pumpkin,[1][2][3] (marrow) squash[2]
  2. gourd

Derived terms

References
  1. Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “dudúm”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 78b
  2. Marcel Courthiade (2009) “o dudum, -es- m. -a, -en-”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, pages 134b-135a
  3. Andrea Scala (2020) “Romani Lexicon”, in Yaron Matras, Anton Tenser, editors, The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 100
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