Duft
German edit
Etymology edit
From Middle High German tuft, from Old High German duft, thuft, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, be obscured”); cognate with Danish duft (“fragrance”) and possibly Ancient Greek τῠφλός (tuphlós, “blind”).[1] The Middle High German t- is an irregular hardening (compare tausend) that was undone in modern German.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
Duft m (strong, genitive Duftes or Dufts, plural Düfte, diminutive Düftchen n)
Declension edit
Declension of Duft [masculine, strong]
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 1521