dyngia

Old Swedish

noun

Definitions

pile of dung; manure

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse dyngja (a detached apartment, a lady's bower, heap, dung) inherited from Proto-Germanic *dungijǭ (bower, an enclosed space, a vault, treasury).

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*dungijǭ

Gloss

bower, an enclosed space, a vault, treasury

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

tunkio Finnish
*dʰengʰ- Proto-Indo-European
*dungijǭ Proto-Germanic
dynga Swedish
dyncge Old English
dyngja Old Norse
dyngja Icelandic
*dungjo Frankish
*dunjon-, *dungjo Frankish