dung
English
/ˈdʌŋ/
noun
Definitions
- (uncountable) Manure; animal excrement.
- (countable) A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English donge, dung, dunge inherited from Old English dung (a subterranean chamber, a prison, dung, manure, dungeon, excrement) inherited from Proto-Germanic *dungō (dung, manure) derived from Proto-Indo-European *dʰengʰ- (cover, covering), *dʰengʰ- (cover, covering).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*dʰengʰ-
Gloss
cover, covering
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ball English
- bedung English
- bull English
- bulldung English
- cow English
- cowdung English
- dingily English
- dinginess English
- dingle English
- dingy English
- dung heap English
- dungball English
- dungfly English
- dungfork English
- dunghill English
- dunglike English
- dungmere English
- dungmixen English
- dungstead English
- dungy English
- dungyard English
- fly English
- fork English
- heap English
- hill English
- horse English
- horsedung English
- mere English
- mixen English
- stead English
- tumble English
- tumbledung English
- yard English
- *domnione Latin
- Dung German
- Düngung German
- düngen German
- *dʰengʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰn̥gʰ-, *dʰengʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *dungijǭ Proto-Germanic
- *dungiz, *dungaz Proto-Germanic
- *dungz Proto-Germanic
- *dungō Proto-Germanic
- dung Old English
- *dingy Middle English
- dingle Middle English
- donge Middle English
- donge, dung, dunge Middle English
- donghep, donghēp Middle English
- dyngja Old Norse
- *dǫga Proto-Slavic
- donjon Old French
- tung Old High German
- tunga Old High German
- dëng Albanian
- dangus Lithuanian
- dingti Lithuanian
- *danga Proto-Albanian