doughter
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Middle English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- douȝter, dowȝter, doȝter, doghter, doghtyr, dowghter, doughtir, dochtyr, dohter, douhter, dowhter, douhtur, dogheter, dowter, dowtyr, doughtere, dohhterr
- doster, dostyr (influenced by late Old French, where s before a consonant represented /x/)
Etymology
[edit]From Old English dohtor, from Proto-West Germanic *dohter.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]doughter (plural doughters or doughtren or deghter or (rare) doughter or (rare) deghteres or (rare) dehtren, genitive doughter or doughters)
- One's daughter; one's female direct progeny.
- c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)[1], published c. 1410, Matheu 10:35, page 4v, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
- foꝛ I cam to departe a man aȝenes his fadir .· ⁊ þe douȝtir aȝenes hir modir · ⁊ þe ſones wijf aȝenes þe hoſebondis modir
- Because I came to divide a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against [her] mother-in-law.
- late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Clerk's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 442-444:
- Nat longe tyme after that this Grisild
Was wedded, she a doughter hath y-bore,
Al had hir lever have born a knave child.- Not long time after this Griselda
Was married, she has borne a daughter,
Although she would rather have given birth to a male child.
- Not long time after this Griselda
- One of one's female inheritors (also used metaphorically in religion)
- A woman who lives in or inhabits a certain nation.
- A religious woman, especially one who has given herself to the monastic lifestyle.
- A habit or behaviour viewed as one of the mental progeny of someone or something.
- A term of friendship used when talking to a woman.
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- English: daughter
- Australian Kriol: doda
- Scots: dochter, daiter (rare, Orkney); daowter, dowter; dather (obsolete); dauchter, dother, douchter
- Yola: doughtere, daughtere
References
[edit]- “doughter, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-17.
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- enm:Female family members
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