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        <title type="main">Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *dugunþō</title>
        <author>Scott K. Shay</author>
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        <publisher>Wardja Press</publisher>
        <date when="2026-10-02"/>
        <idno type="URL">https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_dugunþō</idno>
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          <analytic>
            <title level="a">Stative and Middle in Indo-European (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 23)</title>
            <author>
              <forename>Jay</forename>
              <surname>Jasanoff</surname>
            </author>
          </analytic>
          <monogr>
            <title level="j">Institut für Sprachwissenschaft</title>
            <imprint>
              <date>1978</date>
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          <monogr>
            <title level="m">Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)</title>
            <author>
              <forename>Guus</forename>
              <surname>Kroonen</surname>
            </author>
            <imprint>
              <publisher>Brill</publisher>
              <date>2013</date>
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          <form type="lemma">
            <orth>dugunþō</orth>
            <pron notation="ipa">ˈdu.ɣun.θɔː</pron>
            <form type="runic">
              <orth>ᛞᚢᚷᚢᚾᚦᛟ</orth>
            </form>
          </form>
          <gramGrp>
            <pos>noun</pos>
            <gram type="gender">feminine</gram>
            <gram type="stem">ō-stem</gram>
          </gramGrp>
          <sense n="1">
            <def>ability, usefulness, strength</def>
          </sense>
          <sense n="2">
            <def>virtue, strength of character</def>
          </sense>
          <etym>
            <seg type="p">Possibly from an unattested  adjective **dugunþaz (‘productive, useful, strong’) reformulated as an ō-stem, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰéwgʰ-ont-s ~ *dʰugʰ-n̥t-és, from *dʰewgʰ- (‘to hit; produce; be strong, have force’) + <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*-onts</mentioned>(forms adjectives from Caland system roots) <bibl corresp="#jasanoff1978">Jasanoff 1978</bibl>. <bibl corresp="#kroonen2013">Kroonen 2013</bibl> constructs the etymon as an original ti-stem,  dʰugʰ-Hn̥-tí-s, which appears to be a formation utilizing the so-called Hoffman suffix, <mentioned xml:lang="gmw-x-proto">*-Hō</mentioned>. See also *duganą (‘to be fit, avail’).</seg>
          </etym>
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            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #nom">
              <orth>dugunþō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #nom">
              <orth>dugunþôz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #acc">
              <orth>dugunþǭ</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #acc">
              <orth>dugunþōz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #gen">
              <orth>dugunþōz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #gen">
              <orth>dugunþǫ̂</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #dat">
              <orth>dugunþōi</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #dat">
              <orth>dugunþōmaz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #instr">
              <orth>dugunþō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #instr">
              <orth>dugunþōmiz</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#sg #voc">
              <orth>dugunþō</orth>
            </form>
            <form type="inflected" ana="#pl #voc">
              <orth>dugunþôz</orth>
            </form>
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                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*dugunþi, *dugunþu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Dutch</lang>
                    <orth>*dugath, *dugeth</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Dutch</lang>
                      <orth>doget, doghet, duget, dueget</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Dutch</lang>
                        <orth>deugd</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Afrikaans</lang>
                          <orth>deug</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*dugunþi, *dugunþu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old English</lang>
                    <orth>duguþ</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle English</lang>
                      <orth>douthe, douth, douþe, duthe, doȝeðe, dugeð, duȝde, duȝeðe, duȝeþe, duheðe, duhþe, duweðe</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>English</lang>
                        <orth>douth</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Scots</lang>
                        <orth>duthe, douth</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*dugunþi, *dugunþu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Frisian</lang>
                    <orth>dugethe, dugede</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>North Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>döged, dögd</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Saterland Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>Duugd</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>West Frisian</lang>
                      <orth>deugd</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*dugunþi, *dugunþu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>tungundi, tugund, tugind, *dugud</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>tugende, tugent, duget, duged</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Alemannic German</lang>
                        <orth>Tuugend</orth>
                      </form>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Yiddish</lang>
                        <orth>טוגענד (tugend)</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*dugunþi, *dugunþu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old High German</lang>
                    <orth>tungundi, tugund, tugind, *dugud</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle High German</lang>
                      <orth>tugende, tugent, duget, duged</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>German</lang>
                        <orth>Tugend</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Central Franconian</lang>
                          <orth>Dugend, Dujend, Tugend, Tuend</orth>
                        </form>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Luxembourgish</lang>
                          <orth>Dugend</orth>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-West Germanic</lang>
                  <orth>*dugunþi, *dugunþu</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Saxon</lang>
                    <orth>*dugund, *dugunt, *duguth</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Middle Low German</lang>
                      <orth>dogent, doget</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Low German</lang>
                        <orth>Döögde, Döögte, Döögd, Döögt</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-Norse</lang>
                  <orth>*ᛞᚢᚷᛁᚦᛟ (*duȝiðō)</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                    <orth>dygð, dyggð</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Faroese</lang>
                      <orth>dygd</orth>
                    </form>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Icelandic</lang>
                      <orth>dygð, dyggð</orth>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-Norse</lang>
                  <orth>*ᛞᚢᚷᛁᚦᛟ (*duȝiðō)</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                    <orth>dygð, dyggð</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Norwegian Nynorsk</lang>
                      <orth>dygd</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                        <orth>dygd</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-Norse</lang>
                  <orth>*ᛞᚢᚷᛁᚦᛟ (*duȝiðō)</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                    <orth>dygð, dyggð</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Old Danish</lang>
                      <orth>dyghth</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Danish</lang>
                        <orth>dyd</orth>
                        <form type="descendant">
                          <lang>Norwegian Bokmål</lang>
                          <orth>dyd</orth>
                          <form type="descendant">
                            <lang>Norwegian Nynorsk</lang>
                            <orth>dyd</orth>
                          </form>
                        </form>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
              <item>
                <form type="descendant">
                  <lang>Proto-Norse</lang>
                  <orth>*ᛞᚢᚷᛁᚦᛟ (*duȝiðō)</orth>
                  <form type="descendant">
                    <lang>Old Norse</lang>
                    <orth>dygð, dyggð</orth>
                    <form type="descendant">
                      <lang>Old Swedish</lang>
                      <orth>dyghþ</orth>
                      <form type="descendant">
                        <lang>Swedish</lang>
                        <orth>dygd</orth>
                      </form>
                    </form>
                  </form>
                </form>
              </item>
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