dugha
Old Swedish
verb
Definitions
- to be strong, to be capable
- to help, to benefit, to be useful
- to befit, to suit
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse duga (suffice, help, do one's best, be useful) inherited from Proto-Germanic *duganą (be usefull, be useful).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*duganą
Gloss
be usefull, be useful
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- *dʰedʰówgʰe Proto-Indo-European
- *dʰewgʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- duge Norwegian Bokmål
- *duganą Proto-Germanic
- duga Swedish
- duglig Swedish
- duga Norwegian Nynorsk
- dugan Old English
- atdugnaðr Old Norse
- duga Old Norse
- dugnaðr Old Norse
- tugan Old High German
- duga Faroese
- 𐌳𐌿𐌲𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *duhtīg gmw-pro
- dugan Old Dutch
- dugan Old Saxon
- dåga Westrobothnian