Where does “dunn” come from?

dunn (Old English) comes from Proto-Germanic dusnaz, from Proto-Indo-European dʰewh₂- — smoke; mist, haze.

dunn (Old English): brown; bleak, dark, dim

Definitions

  1. brown; bleak, dark, dim

Ancestry of “dunn”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicdusnazbrownish; brown; yellow
2Proto-Indo-Europeandʰewh₂-smoke; mist, haze

Words derived from “dunn”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European dʰewh₂- →