- dhengh-1
- dhengh-1English meaning: to press; to coverDeutsche Übersetzung: “drũcken, krũmmeln, bedecken, worauf liegen”Material: O.Ir. dingid, for-ding “ oppressed” (see also dheiĝh-); compare Pedersen KG. II 506; Lith. dengiù, deñgti “cover”, dangà “cover”, dangùs ‘sky, heaven”, in addition diñgti “ disappear” (from “* be covered “), Slav. *dǫga “bow” (: Lith. dangà) in Russ. dugá “bow”, old “ rainbow “, Bulg. dъgá, Serb. dúga, Pol. dial. dęga ds., probably to: O.Ice. dyngia “ dunghill, house in the earth where the women did the handwork “, O.E. dynge, O.H.G. tunga “ fertilization “, O.S. dung, O.H.G. tung, M.H.G. tunc “ the subterranean chamber where the women weaved “ (originally winter houses covered with fertilizer for the protection against the cold), O.E. dung “ jail “, O.H.G. tungen “ depress, fertilize “, O.E. Eng. dung “ manure “, Ger. Dung, Dũnger. Maybe Alb. dengu “heap”References: WP. I 791 f., 854, Trautmann 44 f.
Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.