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Old Prussian
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to milk, suckle”). Cognate with Albanian djathë (“cheese”), Sanskrit दधि (dádhi, “curd”), Latvian dêt (“to suck”), Polish doić (“to milk”).
Noun
dadan
- milk
- Elbing German-Prussian Vocabulary
- MJlch Dadan
References
- Mažiulis, Vytautas (1988) “dadan”, in Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas [Etymological dictionary of Old Prussian] (in Lithuanian), volume 1, Vilnius: Mokslas, pages 171-172