The story
- Middle Dutch · derived fromdasen“act silly”
- Proto-Germanic · derived from*dusāną
- English todaydaze
From Middle English, back-formation from dazed. Compare Old Norse dasask (“to become weary”), with reflexive suffix -sk, Swedish dasa (“lie idly”), and Icelandic dasask (“to make weary with cold”). Also compare Proto-Germanic *dusāną, to slumber. Alternatively from Middle Dutch dasen (“act silly”).
Words from the same roots
Proto-Germanic*dusāną all →
doze
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.