Word Origin Summary

*dwōg- is attested in Proto-Indo-European. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• duk

  Swedish · derived from

• Dagobert Duck

  Dutch · derived from

• dök

  Volapük · borrowed from

• duck

  English · derived from

• doks

  Dutch · derived from

• dak

  Marshallese · borrowed from

• Dagobert Duck

  German · derived from

• dook

  English · derived from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root