*dungijǭ^¹

Runic: ᛞᚢᚾᚷᛁᛃᛟ Pronunciation: /ˈduŋ.ɡi.jɔ̃ː/

noun · feminine · ōn-stem

Meanings

earthen mound
dunghill

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from *dungō (‘earth, dung’) + *-(i)jǭ(forms feminine agent nouns). (Kroonen 2013) derives this via an intermediary verb **dungijaną (‘to fertilize’).

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	dungijǭ	dungijōniz
Acc.	dungijōnų	dungijōnunz
Gen.	dungijōniz	dungijōnǫ̂
Dat.	dungijōni	dungijōmaz
Inst.	dungijōnē	dungijōmiz
Voc.	dungijǭ	dungijōniz

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Descendants

*dungijā (Proto-West Germanic)
- *dunga (Old Dutch)
  - Dungus, Medmedug (Old Dutch)
*dungijā (Proto-West Germanic)
- *dunga (Old Dutch)
  - *donge, *donke (Middle Dutch)
    - donk (Dutch)
*dungijā (Proto-West Germanic)
- dynċġe, dinċġe, denġe (Old English)
dyngja (Old Norse)
- dyngja (Faroese)
- dyngge, dynggå (Gutnish)
- dyngja (Icelandic)
- dongja (Norn)
- dynge (Norwegian Bokmål)
- dyngje (Norwegian Nynorsk)
dyngja (Old Norse)
- dyngiæ (Old Danish)
  - dynge (Danish)
dyngja (Old Norse)
- dyngia (Old Swedish)
  - dynga (Swedish)
*tunkijo (Proto-Finnic)

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