Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A cave passage containing water with low, or no, airspace.
To quickly lower (the head or body), often in order to prevent it from being struck by something. · To lower (something) into water; to thrust or plunge under liquid and suddenly withdraw. · To go under the surface of water and immediately reappear; to plunge one's head into water or other liquid. · To bow.
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *dūkaną Proto-West Germanic *dūkan Old English *dūcan Middle English ducken English duck From Middle English ducken, duken, douken (“to duck, plunge under water, submerge”), from Old English *dūcan (“to dip, dive, duck”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūkan, from Proto-Germanic *dūkaną (“to dip, dive, bend down, stoop, duck”). Cognates Related to Scots dulk (“to duck”), Middle Dutch ducken (“to duck”), Low German ducken (“to duck”), German ducken (“to duck”), Danish dukke, dykke (“to dive”). Related also to Scots dook, douk (“to bathe, drench, soak, baptise”), West Frisian dûke (“to plunge, dive”), Dutch duiken (“to dive, plunge, duck”), Low German duken (“to duck, dive, stoop”), German tauchen (“to dive, plunge, immerse, duck”), Swedish dyka (“to dive, submerge”).
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionduckenenm
- Derivation mention*dūcanang · to dip, dive, duck
- Derivation mention*dūkangmw-pro
- Derivation mention*dūkanągem-pro · to dip, dive, bend down, stoop, duck
- Cognate mentiondulksco · to duck
- Cognate mentionduckendum · to duck
- Cognate mentionduckennds · to duck
- Cognate mentionduckende · to duck
- Cognate mentiondukkeda
- Cognate mentiondooksco
- Cognate mentiondûkefy · to plunge, dive
- Cognate mentionduikennl · to dive, plunge, duck
- Cognate mentiondukennds · to duck, dive, stoop
- Cognate mentiontauchende · to dive, plunge, immerse, duck
- Cognate mentiondykasv · to dive, submerge
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