Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Manure; animal excrement. · A type of manure, as from a particular species or type of animal. · A tailor's employee, usually one who is paid by the piece rather than by the day.
To fertilize with dung. · To immerse or steep, as calico, in a bath of hot water containing cow dung, done to remove the superfluous mordant. · To release dung: to defecate.
From Middle English dung, dunge, donge, from Old English dung (“dung; excrement; manure”), from Proto-West Germanic *dungu, from Proto-Germanic *dungō (“dung”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰengʰ- (“to cover”). Superseded non-native Middle English fen (“dung, excrement, filth”), from Old French fien, fiente (“dung, manure”).
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- Root classification mention*dʰengʰ-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentiondung, dunge, dongeenm
- Inherited-form mentiondungang · dung; excrement; manure
- Inherited-form mention*dungugmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*dungōgem-pro · dung
- Derivation mention*dʰengʰ-ine-pro · to cover
- Non-cognate comparisonfenenm · dung, excrement, filth
- Non-cognate comparisonfienfro
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