Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
The state of being dazed · A glittering stone.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo stun or stupefy, for example with bright light, with a blow, with cold, or with fear.
From Middle English, back-formation from dazed. Compare Old Norse dasask (“to become weary”), with reflexive suffix -sk, Swedish dasa (“lie idly”), and Icelandic dasask (“to make weary with cold”). Also compare Proto-Germanic *dusāną, to slumber. Alternatively from Middle Dutch dasen (“act silly”).
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