English
dunk
Dunk comes from Old High German dunkōn ‘to dip, submerge, dunk’, and goes back to Proto-West Germanic *þunkōn ‘to make wet’.
- Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*þunkōn‘to make wet’reconstructed
- Old High Germanc. 750–1050dunkōn‘to dip, submerge, dunk’
- Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350dunken
- Pennsylvania Germanmoderndunke
- Englishearliest quotation 2009dunk
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Earlier history uncertain.
Lineage
- Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*þunkōn‘to make wet’reconstructed
- Old High Germanc. 750–1050dunkōn‘to dip, submerge, dunk’
- Middle High Germanc. 1050–1350dunken
- Pennsylvania Germanmoderndunke
- Englishearliest quotation 2009dunk
Earliest quotation: 2009, Natalie Angier, Brain Is a Co-Conspirator in a Vicious Stress Loop: “To rattle the rats to the point where their…”
Linked words
through Proto-Indo-European *teng- ‘to moisten, wet’
Today it means
verb To submerge briefly in a liquid.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-West Germanic *þunkōn / dunk