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duft.

a scent, fragrance

4 characters1 syllables approx.Dansk language

Meaning & usage

noun[ˈd̥ɔfd̥]

  1. a scent, fragrance

    common-gender

  2. a smell (nice, pleasant smell)

    common-gender
Where this word comes from

From Old Danish duft (“powder”), Old Norse dupt n (“powder”), from Proto-Germanic *duftaz, cognate with Swedish doft (“powder”) and German Duft (“smell”), Middle High German tuft (“fog”). Semantically, the Danish word is influenced by the German word. The Germanic noun is derived from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, be obscured”), which is also found in Proto-Germanic *daubaz (“deaf”).

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