See also: Dyja

Old Norse

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Etymology

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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

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dýja

  1. to shake

Conjugation

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References

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  • dýja”, 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