Where does “dug” come from?

dug (Scots) comes from Old English docga, from Old English -ga, from Proto-West Germanic *-gō.

dug (Scots): dog; To stand up to; to outlast

Definitions

  1. dog; To stand up to; to outlast

Ancestry of “dug”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishdocgaa powerful kind of dog, a hound
2Old English-gaDiminutive suffix, used especially in familiar...
3Proto-West Germanic*-gō—
Every word from Proto-West Germanic *-gō →Every word from Old English -ga →Every word from Old English docga →
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