Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *dusānąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_dusāną
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*dʰus-eh₂yé/ó-to breathe, inhale, exhalefurōto rave, rage, or seethe; to be crazed, mad, or franticdusētto sleep, rest
verbWeak class 3to be stunned, swoonto be dizzyto slumberAn eh₂(ye)-fractive verb, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰus-eh₂yé/ó- from *dʰwes- (‘to breathe, inhale, exhale’). Cognates are Latvian dusēt (‘to sleep, rest’), which went through similar semantic change, from a sense of ‘to breathe’ > ‘to feel shortness of breath’ > ‘breath heavily’ > ‘sleep’), Bengali ধসা (dhośa, ‘to be destroyed; to be ruined’), and Latin furō (‘to rave, rage, or seethe; to be crazed, mad, or frantic’). Related to *deuzą (‘(wild) animal, beast’), *deuzaz (‘wild, fierce, bold’), and *dūsaz (‘still, calm’).