*dunstą

Runic: ᛞᚢᚾᛊᛏᚨ Pronunciation: /ˈdun.stɑ̃/

noun · neuter · a-stem

Meanings

  1. mist, haze
  2. evaporation
  3. dust

Etymology

Per (Kroonen 2013), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰuns-to-m, from a nasal-infix zero-grade form of *dʰwes- (‘to smoke, fume’). Cognate with Marathi ढासळणे (ḍhāsaḷṇe, ‘to collapse; to break down; to fail’) and धँसना (dhãsnā, ‘to sink, drown, be submerged’).

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nom.dunstądunstō
Acc.dunstądunstō
Gen.dunstas, dunstisdunstǫ̂
Dat.dunstaidunstamaz
Inst.dunstōdunstamiz
Voc.dunstądunstō

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Descendants

  • dust, dūst (Old English)
    • dust, doust (Middle English)
      • dust (English)
      • dust, dist (Scots)
  • dūst (Old Frisian)
    • Duist (Saterland Frisian)
  • *dunst (Old Saxon)
    • donst, dûst (Middle Low German)
      • Donst (Plautdietsch)
      • dunst (Swedish)
  • *dunst (Old Saxon)
    • donst, dûst (Middle Low German)
      • Dunst, Duust (Low German)
  • *dūst (Old Saxon)
    • donst, dûst (Middle Low German)
      • Donst (Plautdietsch)
      • dunst (Swedish)
  • *dūst (Old Saxon)
    • donst, dûst (Middle Low German)
      • Dunst, Duust (Low German)
  • *dunst, dūst (Old Dutch)
    • dunst, donst, doest, duust (Middle Dutch)
      • dons, duist (Dutch)
  • dunist, dunst, tunist (Old High German)
    • tunst, dunst (Middle High German)
      • Dunst (German)
      • Donst (Luxembourgish)

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