dohtor

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *dohter. Cognate with German Tochter and Dutch dochter.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdox.tor/

Noun

dohtor f

  1. daughter
    • Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
      ⁊ þǣre ilcan nihte wes Ēadwine[s] dohtor ācenned.
      And on that same night Edwin's daughter was born.
    • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
      An. DCCCLV Hēr hǣþene men ǣrest on Sċeapiġġe ofer winter sǣtan...⁊ þȳ ilcan ġēare [Aþelwulf cing] ferde to Rōme mid myċelre weorðnesse ⁊ þǣr wæs XII mōnoð wuniġende, ⁊ him þā hāmweard fōr ⁊ him þā Carl Francna cing his dohtor ġēaf him tō cwēne, ⁊ æfter þām tō his lēodum cōm...
      Year 855 In this year the heathens stayed on Sheppey over the winter for the first time...And in the same year [King Athelwulf] went to Rome with much honor, and stayed there for twelve months. And them he went home and King Carl [the Bald] of the Franks gave him his daughter as a queen, and after that Athelwulf returned to his people.
    • Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church
      Sumes ġerēfan dohtor hē āhredde fram fefore þurh his ǣrendġewrit, þe hēo ādliġ underfeng.
      He freed a certain reeve's daughter from a fever with his written letter, which she received while sick.

Usage notes

  • The genitive singular dehter is occasionally found, presumably by analogy with the consonant stems.[1] In late Old English, dohtres is also seen, reflecting the beginnings of the spread of the a-stem genitive singular ending -es, although doghter is still frequent in Middle English besides doghtres.

Declension

singular plural
nominative dohtor dohtor, dohtra, dohtru
accusative dohtor dohtor, dohtra, dohtru
genitive dohtor dohtra
dative dehter dohtrum

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Hogg, Richard; Fulk, R. D. (2011), A Grammar of Old English, volume 2: Morphology, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 132
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