*dauþuz

Runic: ᛞᚨᚢᚦᚢᛉ Pronunciation: /ˈdɑu̯.θuz/

noun · masculine · u-stem

Meanings

death

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰów-tu-s ~ *dʰu-téw-s, from an o-grade form of root *dʰew- (‘to die, pass away’). Related to *dawjaną (‘to die’), *daudaz (‘dead’), and *dewaną (‘to die’). Cognates are Old Armenian դի (di, ‘corpse, dead body, carcass’) and Latin fūnus (‘funeral, death, corpse’).

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	dauþuz	dauþiwiz
Acc.	dauþų	dauþunz
Gen.	dauþauz	dauþiwǫ̂
Dat.	dauþiwi	dauþumaz
Inst.	dauþū	dauþumiz
Voc.	dauþu	dauþiwiz

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Descendants

*dauþu (Proto-West Germanic)
- dōt, dōth (Old Dutch)
  - dôot (Middle Dutch)
    - doead (Limburgish)
*dauþu (Proto-West Germanic)
- dōt, dōth (Old Dutch)
  - dôot (Middle Dutch)
    - dood (Dutch)
      - dood (Afrikaans)
*dauþu (Proto-West Germanic)
- dēaþ, dǣþ, dēað (Old English)
  - deeth, deeþ, deth, deþ, dethe, deþe, deð, dæð, dæþ (Middle English)
    - death (English)
    - deith, daith (Scots)
*dauþu (Proto-West Germanic)
- dāth, dād, dāt (Old Frisian)
  - Dood (Saterland Frisian)
  - dead (West Frisian)
*dauþu (Proto-West Germanic)
- tōd, dot, doth (Old High German)
  - tōt (Middle High German)
    - Tod (German)
    - Doud (Luxembourgish)
    - טויט (toyt) (Yiddish)
*dauþu (Proto-West Germanic)
- dōth (Old Saxon)
  - dōt, dōd (Middle Low German)
    - Dood (Low German)
    - Doot (Plautdietsch)
*ᛞᚨᚢᚦᚢᛉ (*dauþuʀ) (Proto-Norse)
- *tauti (Proto-Finnic)
*ᛞᚨᚢᚦᚢᛉ (*dauþuʀ) (Proto-Norse)
- dauðr (Old Norse)
  - deyður (Faroese)
  - dauður (Icelandic)
  - daud (Norwegian Nynorsk)
*ᛞᚨᚢᚦᚢᛉ (*dauþuʀ) (Proto-Norse)
- dauðr (Old Norse)
  - død (Danish)
    - død (Norwegian Bokmål)
      - død (Norwegian Nynorsk)
*ᛞᚨᚢᚦᚢᛉ (*dauþuʀ) (Proto-Norse)
- dauðr (Old Norse)
  - dø̄þer (Old Swedish)
    - död (Swedish)
𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌸𐌿𐍃 (dauþus) (Gothic)

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