Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *tuppazScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_tuppaz
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𐬛𐬎𐬨𐬀penis*dewmb-penis, tail, rod
nounmasculinea-stemtuft, plait (of hair)top, summitSecondary formation from *tebô ~ *tappaz (‘tuft, knot, peg’), whence Old High German zepfo, zapfo (‘plug, peg, broom’), Old English tæppa (‘strip of cloth’), Norwegian tave (‘piece of cloth’), of unknown origin.Sometimes reconstructed from earlier *tumpaz with irregular development *mp > *pp, from Proto-Indo-European *dewmb- (‘penis, tail, rod’), whence Old High German zumpfo (‘penis’), Dutch tamp (‘rope end, penis’), Avestan 𐬛𐬎𐬨𐬀 (duma, ‘penis’), Persian دُنْب (donb, ‘tail’). This can be related to the above by the addition of an n-infix. Alternatively, it can be explained as metathesis of the nasal from the pre-Germanic weak stem *dbʰ-nó- to *dm̥bʰ-ó- and subsequent contamination between the two stems to *dm̥bʰ-nó-, whence early Proto-Germanic *tumppaz, later *tumpaz.(Pystynen 2024) proposes borrowing from Proto-Finnic *tup'as, in which case *tuppaz would be more original than the e- and a-grade variants cited above.