See also: dýja and Dyja

Old Norse edit

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Etymology edit

From Proto-Germanic *dūjan- (to tremble), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (blow, smoke).

Compare Old English dofian (rage), Dutch dof, Middle High German top (senseless, brainless, crazy), Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, smoke, steam, wooziness, folly, silly pride), Latin suffio (to fumigate), Lithuanian dujà (drizzle, mist).

Verb edit

dyja

  1. to shake

Conjugation edit

References edit

  • dyja”, in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • Kroonen, Guus (2013) “dujan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 107