duf
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AlbanianEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Albanian *dupsa, from Proto-Indo-European *dheu- 'blow, smoke; dark, gray, deep'. Compare Old English dofian (“rage”), Dutch dof, Middle High German top (“senseless, brainless, crazy”), Ancient Greek τῦφος (tûphos, “smoke, steam, dense smoke; wooziness, folly, silly pride”), Latin suffio (“to fumigate”), Old Norse dyja (“to shake”).
NounEdit
duf m
- air blow, anger, impatience, rage
Related termsEdit
DutchEdit
EtymologyEdit
Variant of dof
PronunciationEdit
AdjectiveEdit
duf (comparative duffer, superlative dufst)
- unable to think clearly
- boring, uninteresting
- fusty, moldy
InflectionEdit
| Inflection of duf | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | duf | |||
| inflected | duffe | |||
| comparative | duffer | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | duf | duffer | het dufst het dufste |
|
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | duffe | duffere | dufste |
| n. sing. | duf | duffer | dufste | |
| plural | duffe | duffere | dufste | |
| definite | duffe | duffere | dufste | |
| partitive | dufs | duffers | — | |
SynonymsEdit
- (unable to think clearly): suf
- (boring): oninteressant, saai
- (fusty): bedompt, muf
WestrobothnianEdit
EtymologyEdit
Compare Old Norse dýfa (“to dip”), English dive, from Proto-Germanic *dūbijaną.
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
dūf
- dip bread in lard of fatty meat, broth or cream
- han hȧdd sä fett i kött du skull få duf däg mätten å flatt i gryta
- He had such fatty meat, that one could dip the bread in the lard in the pot and thereby become full.
- han hȧdd sä fett i kött du skull få duf däg mätten å flatt i gryta
ReferencesEdit
- Stenberg, Pehr, Widmark, Gusten, “duva v dūf”, in Ordbok över Umemålet [Dictionary of the Umeå speech], →ISBN, page 23
- Rietz, Johan Ernst, “DUV’”, in Svenskt dialektlexikon: ordbok öfver svenska allmogespråket [Swedish dialectal lexicon: a dictionary for the Swedish lects] (in Swedish), 1962 edition, Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups Förlag, published 1862–1867, page 107