*dusīg

Reconstruction

Wiktionary reconstructs *dusīg "dazed, stunned; dizzy, giddy" for Proto-West Germanic.^[1]

Etymology

Köbler takes it to be inherited from Proto-Germanic *dusigaz (“stunned”), which he also writes *dusiga-.^[2] Schaffner reconstructs Proto-Germanic *dusiga- beside *duziga- "foolish, stupid", with grammatical change, for Old English dysig and dyseg, Old High German tusīg, Middle Low German dusich (“stunned, dizzy”) and Middle Dutch dosech and dosich.^[3] Wiktionary derives it instead within West Germanic from *dusēn with the suffix *-g.^[1]

Morphology

An adjective.^[4][5]

Evidence

The Old English adjective glosses Latin fatuus and stultus (“foolish”),^[4] and the Old High German one glosses brutus and hebes (“dull”) in glosses from 765 on.^[5] Wiktionary gives the Old Frisian, Old Saxon and Old Dutch forms only as reconstructions.^[1]

Competing analyses

Köbler and Schaffner reconstruct the adjective for Proto-Germanic,^[2][3] while Wiktionary takes it for a West Germanic formation.^[1] Schaffner sets the Old West Frisian adjective Old Frisian durich beside the other forms, with the r of grammatical change.^[3] Köbler glosses that word "sinful, unlawful, violent" and compares Middle High German instead,^[6] and Hofmann and Popkema gloss it "unlawful, wicked".^[7]

Meanings

1. dazed, stunned^[1]
2. dizzy, giddy^[1]

Schaffner glosses the Proto-Germanic adjective "foolish, stupid",^[3] the sense of Old English and Old High German, while Middle Low German has "stunned, dizzy".^[4][5][2]

Reflexes

• Old English: dysig (“foolish, ignorant, stupid”)^[4]
• Old High German: tusīg (“dull, foolish”)^[5]

References

1. ^ a b c d e f Wiktionary, the free dictionary, https://en.wiktionary.org, p. s.v. *dusīg
2. ^ a b c Köbler, Gerhard (2014), Germanisches Wörterbuch, 5th ed., online, koeblergerhard.de/wikiling, p. s.v. *dusiga-
3. ^ a b c d Schaffner, Stefan (2001), Das Vernersche Gesetz und der innerparadigmatische grammatische Wechsel des Urgermanischen im Nominalbereich, Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft 103, Innsbruck, p. 283
4. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2014), Altenglisches Wörterbuch, 4th ed., online, koeblergerhard.de/wikiling, p. s.v. dysig
5. ^ a b c d Köbler, Gerhard (2014), Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, 6th ed., online, koeblergerhard.de/wikiling, p. s.v. tusīg
6. ^ Köbler, Gerhard (2014), Altfriesisches Wörterbuch, 4th ed., online, koeblergerhard.de/wikiling, p. s.v. durich
7. ^ Hofmann, Dietrich; Popkema, Anne Tjerk (2008), Altfriesisches Handwörterbuch, Heidelberg: Carl Winter, p. s.v. durich