DictionaryRoot: dufan
Old English
dufan
to dive, duck, sink
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verb / noun
dive
DYVE/daɪv/
To plunge quickly downward into something.
Etymology
Old English dufan described diving or sinking and merged with dyfan, “to dip, submerge.” The water-plunge meaning broadened to other sudden plunges, including downward movement through the air.