- dagung
- f (-e/-a) daybreak, dawn, a dawning; on \dagunge at daybreak
Old to modern English dictionary. 2013.
dagung
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dawn — [15] Dawn was originally formed from day. The Old English word dæg ‘day’ formed the basis of dagung, literally ‘daying’, a word coined to designate the emergence of day from night. In Middle English this became daiing or dawyng, which in the 13th … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
dawn — {{11}}dawn (n.) 1590s, from DAWN (Cf. dawn) (v.). {{12}}dawn (v.) c.1200, dauen, to dawn, grow light, shortened or back formed from dauinge, dauing period between darkness and sunrise, (c.1200), from O.E. dagung, from dagian to become day, from… … Etymology dictionary
dawn — [15] Dawn was originally formed from day. The Old English word dæg ‘day’ formed the basis of dagung, literally ‘daying’, a word coined to designate the emergence of day from night. In Middle English this became daiing or dawyng, which in the 13th … Word origins
dawn — [dôn, dän] vi. [ME daunen, back form. < dauninge, earlier dauinge, daybreak, prob. altered (infl. by ON dagan, dawn) < OE dagung < dagian, to become day < dæg, DAY] 1. to begin to be day; grow light 2. to begin to appear or develop;… … English World dictionary
