duga

duga

1. juice, nectar, sap

From Old Norse duga (“to help, to suffice”), from Proto-Germanic *duganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewgʰ- (“to produce”)[1].

• IPA^(key): /ˈtuːwa/
• Rhymes: -uːwa

duga (third person singular past indicative dugdi, third person plural past indicative dugdu, supine dugað)

1. to know how to

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʏːɣa/

  Rhymes: -ʏːɣa

duga weak verb (third person singular past indicative dugði, supine dugað; third person singular present indicative dugir) or
duga weak verb (third person singular past indicative dugaði, supine dugað; third person singular present indicative dugar)

1. to suffice, to be enough, to do the trick

   Þetta dugir mér.

   This is enough for me.

   Mig vantar blað.. Þetta umslag dugar alveg.

   I need a piece of paper.. This old envelope will do the trick!

2. to be fit

• (to suffice): nægja

• duga til (“to be good for”)
• duga eða drepast (“to do or die”)
• nú er að duga eða drepast

duga (used in the form menduga)

1. To gauge. (clarification of this definition is needed)
2. To guess.

• duge

From Old Norse duga.

• IPA^(key): /dʉːɡa/ (example of pronunciation)

duga (present tense duger, past tense dugde, past participle dugd/dugt, passive infinitive dugast, present participle dugande, imperative dug)

1. help, be useful; be good enough; work

   Dette duger ikkje. Me lyt freista noko anna.

   This doesn't work. We'll have to try something else.

2. be skilled enough

   Er du viss på at dei duger til jobben?

   Are you sure that they are skilled enough for the job?

• “duga” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *duganą, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰedʰówgʰe, from the root *dʰewgʰ- (“to produce”).

duga (singular past indicative dugði, plural past indicative dugðu, past participle dugat)

1. to help, aid
2. to do, suffice
   • hefir oss þó dugat þessi átrúnaðr

     but this faith has served us well

   • fátt er svá illt at einugi dugi

     few things are utterly useless

   • mun þér eigi þat duga at sofa hér

     it will not do (is not safe) for thee to sleep here

3. to show prowess, do good service
   • dugði hverr sem hann mátti

     everyone did his best

4. to suffice, be strong enough
   • ef vitni duga

     if the witness fail not

• dugnaðr m

• duga in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

From Proto-Slavic *dǫga.

• IPA^(key): /dǔːɡa/

dúga f (Cyrillic spelling ду́га)

1. rainbow

From Old Swedish dugha, from Old Norse duga, from Proto-Germanic *duganą. The (formerly) colloquial strong declension mirrors the declensions of words like suga and ljuga.

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duga (present duger, preterite dugde or dög, supine dugt or dugit, imperative dug)

1. suffice, be good (or skilled) enough; be acceptable; be useful for

   Om den dög åt din syster, så duger den åt dig.

   If it was good enough for your sister, then it'll be good enough for you.

   Den här duger ingenting till.

   This is good for nothing.

• dugande
• som heter duga

duga

1. only, merely

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