*duniz

Runic: ᛞᚢᚾᛁᛉ Pronunciation: /ˈdu.niz/

noun · masculine · i-stem

Meanings

sound; noise

Etymology

From pre-Germanic *dʰún-i-s from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwén-i-s ~ *dʰun-éy-s, from *dʰwen- (‘to make a noise’). Cognate with Sanskrit धुनि (dhúni) (dhúni, ‘noisy, boisterous, roaring loudly, sounding’) and Sanskrit ध्व॒नि (dhvaní) (dhvaní, ‘sound, echo, noise, voice, tone, tune, thunder’).

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	duniz	dunīz
Acc.	dunį	duninz
Gen.	dunīz	dunjǫ̂
Dat.	dunī	dunimaz
Inst.	dunī	dunimiz
Voc.	duni	dunīz

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Descendants

*duni (Proto-West Germanic)
- *duni (Old Dutch)
  - dōne, dōon, duene (Middle Dutch)
    - deun (Dutch)
      - deuntjie (Afrikaans)
*duni (Proto-West Germanic)
- dyne, dyn (Old English)
  - dune, dyne, dene, dine, dyn (Middle English)
    - dun, din (English)
    - dyn, din (Scots)
*duni (Proto-West Germanic)
- tuni, *duni (Old High German)
  - tōn, dōn, dōne, dœne (Middle High German)
    - Ton (German)
*duni (Proto-West Germanic)
- *duni (Old Saxon)
  - done, döne, don (Middle Low German)
dynr (Old Norse)
- døn (Danish)
- dynur (Faroese)
- dynur (Icelandic)
dynr (Old Norse)
- dønn (Norwegian Bokmål)
- døn, dønn (Norwegian Nynorsk)
dynr (Old Norse)
- dyn (Old Swedish)
  - dön, dån, don (Swedish)

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