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duga

See also: Appendix:Variations of "duga"

Bikol Central edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /ˈduɡaʔ/, [ˈd̪u.ɡaʔ]
  • Hyphenation: du‧ga

Noun edit

dugà (Basahan spelling ᜇᜓᜄ)

  1. nectar
    Synonym: tagok
  2. sap
    Synonym: pulot

Cebuano edit

Noun edit

duga

  1. juice, nectar, sap
  2. (slang) sperm, semen

Faroese edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse duga (“to help, to suffice”), from Proto-Germanic *duganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewgʰ- (“to produce”).[1]

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

duga (third person singular past indicative dugdi, supine dugað)

  1. to know how to
    Tey duga føroyskt.[2]
    They can speak Faroese.

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of duga (group v-25)
infinitive duga
supine dugað
participle (a6)1 dugandi dugaður
present past
first singular dugi dugdi
second singular dugir dugdi
third singular dugir dugdi
plural duga dugdu
imperative
singular duga!
plural dugið!
1Only the past participle being declined.

References edit

  1. ^ Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
  2. ^ W. B. Lockwood: An Introduction to Modern Faroese. Tórshavn: Føroya Skúlabókagrunnur, 3rd printing 1977 p. 152

Further reading edit

"duga" at Sprotin.fo

Higaonon edit

Etymology edit

Akin to Cebuano duga.

Noun edit

duga

  1. honey

Icelandic edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse duga (“to help, to suffice”), from Proto-Germanic *duganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewgʰ- (“to produce”).[1]

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

duga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative dugði, supine dugað) or
duga (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative dugaði, supine dugað)

  1. to suffice, to be enough, to do the trick
    Þetta dugir mér.
    This is enough for me.
    Mig vantar blað.. Þetta umslag dugar alveg.
    I need a piece of paper.. This old envelope will do the trick!
  2. to be fit

Synonyms edit

Derived terms edit

References edit

  1. ^ Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎[2], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

Indonesian edit

Verb edit

duga (used in the form menduga)

  1. To gauge. (clarification of this definition is needed)
  2. To guess.

Malay edit

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

duga (Jawi spelling ندوݢ)

  1. to guess
    Synonyms: agak, sangka, teka
  2. to measure or gauge the depth of a body of water
    Synonyms: ajuk, ukur
  3. to test
    Synonyms: ukur, uji

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

  • Indonesian: duga

Further reading edit

Norwegian Nynorsk edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

From Old Norse duga.

Pronunciation edit

Verb edit

duga (present tense duger, past tense dugde, past participle dugt/dugd, passive infinitive dugast, present participle dugande, imperative dug)

  1. help, be useful; be good enough; work
    Dette duger ikkje. Me lyt freista noko anna.
    This doesn't work. We'll have to try something else.
  2. be skilled enough
    Er du viss på at dei duger til jobben?
    Are you sure that they are skilled enough for the job?

References edit

Old Norse edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Germanic *duganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰedʰówgʰe, from the root *dʰewgʰ- (“to produce”).

Verb edit

duga (singular past indicative dugði, plural past indicative dugðu, past participle dugat)

  1. to help, aid
  2. to do, suffice
    hefir oss þó dugat þessi átrúnaðr
    but this faith has served us well
    fátt er svá illt at einugi dugi
    few things are utterly useless
    mun þér eigi þat duga at sofa hér
    it will not do (is not safe) for thee to sleep here
  3. to show prowess, do good service
    dugði hverr sem hann mátti
    everyone did his best
  4. to suffice, be strong enough
    ef vitni duga
    if the witness fail not

Declension edit

Conjugation of duga — active (weak class 3)
infinitive duga
present participle dugandi
past participle dugar
indicative present past
1st-person singular dugi dugða
2nd-person singular dugir dugðir
3rd-person singular dugir dugði
1st-person plural dugum dugðum
2nd-person plural dugið dugðuð
3rd-person plural duga dugðu
subjunctive present past
1st-person singular duga dygða
2nd-person singular dugir dygðir
3rd-person singular dugi dygði
1st-person plural dugim dygðim
2nd-person plural dugið dygðið
3rd-person plural dugi dygði
imperative present
2nd-person singular dug
1st-person plural dugum
2nd-person plural dugið
Conjugation of duga — mediopassive (weak class 3)
infinitive dugask
present participle dugandisk
past participle dugazk
indicative present past
1st-person singular dugumk dugðumk
2nd-person singular dugisk dugðisk
3rd-person singular dugisk dugðisk
1st-person plural dugumsk dugðumsk
2nd-person plural dugizk dugðuzk
3rd-person plural dugask dugðusk
subjunctive present past
1st-person singular dugumk dygðumk
2nd-person singular dugisk dygðisk
3rd-person singular dugisk dygðisk
1st-person plural dugimsk dygðimsk
2nd-person plural dugizk dygðizk
3rd-person plural dugisk dygðisk
imperative present
2nd-person singular dugsk
1st-person plural dugumsk
2nd-person plural dugizk

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

References edit

  • “duga”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Serbo-Croatian edit

 
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Etymology 1 edit

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *dǫga.

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

dúga f (Cyrillic spelling ду́га)

  1. rainbow
Declension edit
Declension of duga
singular plural
nominative duga duge
genitive duge duga
dative duzi dugama
accusative dugu duge
vocative dugo duge
locative duzi dugama
instrumental dugom dugama

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Adjective edit

duga

  1. inflection of dug:
    1. feminine nominative/vocative singular
    2. indefinite masculine/neuter genitive singular
    3. indefinite animate masculine accusative singular
    4. neuter nominative/accusative/vocative plural

Noun edit

duga

  1. genitive singular of dug

Sicilian edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Inherited from Latin doga. Compare Italian doga. (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “from Latin -ŏ-?”)

Noun edit

duga f (plural dughi)

  1. stave (narrow strip of wood forming barrels, buckets, etc.)

Descendants edit

References edit

  • AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 1327: “la doga” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
  • Traina, Antonino (1868) “duga e dua”, in Nuovo vocabolario Siciliano-Italiano [New Sicilian-Italian vocabulary] (in Italian), Liber Liber, published 2020, page 1429
  • Pasqualino (c. 1790) “duga”, in Vocabolario siciliano etimologico, italiano e latino (in Italian), volume 2, page 59

Swedish edit

Etymology edit

From Old Swedish dugha, from Old Norse duga, from Proto-Germanic *duganą. The (formerly) colloquial strong declension mirrors the declensions of words like suga and ljuga.

Pronunciation edit

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Verb edit

duga (present duger, preterite dugde or dög, supine dugt or dugit, imperative dug)

  1. suffice, be good (or skilled) enough; be acceptable; be useful for
    Om den dög åt din syster, så duger den åt dig.
    If it was good enough for your sister, then it'll be good enough for you.
    Den här duger ingenting till.
    This is good for nothing.

Conjugation edit

Conjugation of duga (weak)
Active Passive
Infinitive duga —
Supine dugt —
Imperative dug —
Imper. plural1 dugen —
Present Past Present Past
Indicative duger dugde — —
Ind. plural1 duga dugde — —
Subjunctive2 duge dugde — —
Participles
Present participle dugande
Past participle —
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.
Conjugation of duga (class 2 strong)
Active Passive
Infinitive duga —
Supine dugit —
Imperative dug —
Imper. plural1 dugen —
Present Past Present Past
Indicative duger dög — —
Ind. plural1 duga dögo — —
Subjunctive2 duge döge — —
Participles
Present participle dugande
Past participle —
1 Archaic. 2 Dated. See the appendix on Swedish verbs.

Related terms edit

Further reading edit

Ternate edit

Adverb edit

duga

  1. only, merely

Synonyms edit

Venda edit

Verb edit

duga

  1. to burn
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