Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/dūbǭ

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk; smoke; make obscure”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈduː.βɔ̃ː/

Noun

*dūbǭ f

dove, pigeon

Inflection

ōn-stemDeclension of *dūbǭ (ōn-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*dūbǭ	*dūbōniz
vocative	*dūbǭ	*dūbōniz
accusative	*dūbōnų	*dūbōnunz
genitive	*dūbōniz	*dūbōnǫ̂
dative	*dūbōni	*dūbōmaz
instrumental	*dūbōnē	*dūbōmiz

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *dūbā
- Old English: *dūfe (attested in the female personal name Dūfe)
  - Middle English: douve, duve, dove, dowve, dowe, doufe, douf
    - Scots: doo, dow
    - English: dove
- Old Frisian: *dūve, *dūe
  - Saterland Frisian: Dúve
  - West Frisian: do
- Old Saxon: dūva
  - Middle Low German: dūve
    - Low German:
      - German Low German: Duuv
      - Dutch Low Saxon: duve, doeve
      - Plautdietsch: Duw, Düw, Duuv, Düüv, Duuw, Düüw, Duv, Düv
- Old Dutch: dūva
  - Middle Dutch: duve
    - Dutch: duif
      - Afrikaans: duif
    - Limburgish: doef
- Old High German: tūba; (West Central German) dūva
  - Middle High German: tūbe, dūve
    - Alemannic German: Tuub
    - German: Taube
    - Central Franconian: Duuv, Dauv
      - Kirchröadsj: Doef
      - Luxembourgish: Dauf
    - Vilamovian: tue, taoj
    - Yiddish: טויב‎ (toyb)
Old Norse: dúfa
- Icelandic: dúfa
- Faroese: dúgva, dúva
- Norwegian Bokmål: due
- Norwegian Nynorsk: due
- Old Swedish: dūva
  - Swedish: duva
- Old Danish: dufæ
  - Danish: due
- Scanian: dâwwa
Gothic: *𐌳𐌿𐌱𐍉 (*dubō)

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