dangus

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See also: dangūs

Javanese[edit]

Romanization[edit]

dangus

  1. Romanization of ꦢꦔꦸꦱ꧀

Lithuanian[edit]

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Vakaro dangus - Evening sky

Etymology[edit]

Perhaps a substantivised adjectival derivative of deñgti (to cover) in -ùs, originally meaning "covering".[1] Cognate with Old Prussian dangus (sky, heaven); see also dangà (cover), a nominal derivative of the same root.

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Noun[edit]

dangùs m (plural dañgūs) stress pattern 4

  1. sky
  2. (religion) heaven
  3. (dialectal) the top of the inside of a furnace

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “dangus”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 115

Old Prussian[edit]

Noun[edit]

dangus

  1. sky, heaven
    • Elbing German-Prussian Vocabulary
      Hemel   Dangus
  2. the palate (roof of the mouth)
    • Elbing German-Prussian Vocabulary
      Gume   Dangus