Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗adj
Of a brownish grey colour.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA brownish grey colour.
From Middle English dun, donn, dunne, from Old English dunn (“dun, dingy brown, bark-colored, brownish black”), from Proto-West Germanic *duʀn, from Proto-Germanic *duznaz, *dusnaz (“brown, yellow”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, raise dust”). Cognate with Old Saxon dun (“brown, dark”), Old High German tusin (“ash-gray, dull brown, pale yellow, dark”), Old Norse dunna (“female mallard; duck”). Alternative etymology derives the Old English word from Brythonic (compare Middle Welsh dwnn (“dark (red)”)), from Proto-Celtic *dusnos (compare Old Irish donn and Scottish Gaelic donn (“brown”)), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰews- (compare Old Saxon dosan (“chestnut brown”)). More at dusk.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*dʰewh₂-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentiondunenm
- Inherited-form mentiondunnang · dun, dingy brown, bark-colored, brownish black
- Inherited-form mention*duʀngmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*dusnazgem-pro
- Inherited-form mention*dʰewh₂-ine-pro · to smoke, raise dust
- Cognate mentiondunosx
- Cognate mentiontusingoh
- Cognate mentiondunnanon
- Cognate mentiondwnnwlm · dark (red)
- Derivation mention*dusnoscel-pro
- Cognate mentiondonnsga
- Cognate mentiondonngd · brown
- Derivation mention*dʰews-ine-pro
- Cognate mentiondosanosx · chestnut brown
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