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taugen

taugen

German

Verb

taugen ‎(third-person singular simple present taugt, past tense taugte, past participle getaugt, auxiliary haben)

  1. to be fit

Conjugation

Related terms

References

  1. ↑ Ringe, Don (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic, Oxford University Press
  2. ↑ Pfeifer, Wolfgang. 1995, 2005. Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Deutschen. München: dtv. ISBN 3423325119.

Etymology

From Middle High German tougen, tugen, tügen, from Old High German tugan (attested since the 9th century); from Proto-Germanic *duganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewgʰ- ‎(“to produce, to give milk”)[1]. Semantic evolution: "to produce, to give milk" > "to be useful, to be fitting, to avail".

Germanic Cognates include Old Saxon dugan, Dutch deugen (> Afrikaans deug), Old English dugan (obsolete Modern English dow), Old Norse duga (> Icelandic duga, Faroese duga, Norwegian duge, Swedish duga, Danish du) and Gothic 𐌳𐌿𐌲𐌰𐌽 ‎(dugan). Related to German Tugend and tüchtig.

Non-Germanic-Cognates include Ancient Greek τύχη ‎(túkhē, “fate, chance, luck”), Irish dual ‎(“proper, fitting”), Scottish Gaelic duan ‎(“song, poem, harmonious sounds”), Sanskrit दोग्धि ‎(dṓgdhi, “to milk, to extract”), Lithuanian daũg ‎(“much”), Latvian daudz ‎(“much, a lot”)[2].

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈtaʊ̯ɡn̩]
  • Hyphenation: tau‧gen

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