Noun: duvet
Gender: m
Hyphenation:
| Singular m | duvet |
| Plural m | duvets |
uncountable
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like duvet
trichogramme,
wintergreen,
urinoir,
contrespionnage,
aréomètre,
palefroi,
whiskey,
whippin,
tee-shirt,
hypocycloïde,
surrisque,
lanternon,
dissentiment,
phonogramme,
phonographe,
trioxygène,
fétichisme,
synode,
synthé,
modérantisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Inherited from Middle French duvet, from Old French duvet (“down, the feathers of young birds”), alteration of dumet, dumect, from Old French dum, dun (“down, feathers”), from Old Norse dúnn (“down, down feather”), from Proto-Germanic *dūnaz (“down”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewh₂- (“to smoke, fume, raise dust”).
2. Cognate with Danish dun (“down”), German Daune (“down”). More at English down. See: Old Norse Nouns '
dúnn', Danish Nouns '
dun', German Nouns '
Daune', English Nouns '
down'.
Verbs referencing "duvet"
English Nouns
duvet.
Translations