*duhtēr

Runic: ᛞᚢᚺᛏᛖᚱ Pronunciation: /ˈdux.tɛːr/

noun · feminine · r-stem

Meanings

daughter

Etymology

From pre-Germanic *dʰuktḗr (‘daughter’), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr (‘daughter’), possibly from *dʰewgʰ- (‘to produce’) +‎ *-tḗr, the agentive nominal suffix common to other r-stem kinship terms, cf. *fadēr (‘father’), *mōdēr (‘mother’), and *brōþēr (‘brother’).

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	duhtēr	duhtriz
Acc.	duhterų	duhtrunz
Gen.	duhturz	duhtrǫ̂
Dat.	duhtri	duhtrumaz
Inst.	duhtrē	duhtrumiz
Voc.	duhter	duhtriz

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Descendants

*dohter (Proto-West Germanic)
- dohtar, dohter (Old Dutch)
  - dochter (Middle Dutch)
    - dóchter (Limburgish)
*dohter (Proto-West Germanic)
- dohtar, dohter (Old Dutch)
  - dochter (Middle Dutch)
    - dochter (Dutch)
      - dogter (Afrikaans)
*dohter (Proto-West Germanic)
- dohtor, dohtur, dohter, dochtor, dæhter (Old English)
  - doghter (Middle English)
    - daughter (English)
    - dochter, daiter, daowter, dowter, dather, dauchter, dother, douchter (Scots)
*dohter (Proto-West Germanic)
- dochter (Old Frisian)
  - ? (North Frisian)
  - Dochter (Saterland Frisian)
  - dochter, doaiter (West Frisian)
*dohter (Proto-West Germanic)
- tohter (Old High German)
  - tohter (Middle High German)
    - Tochter (Alemannic German)
    - Tochter (German)
    - Duechter (Luxembourgish)
    - טאָכטער (tokhter) (Yiddish)
*dohter (Proto-West Germanic)
- dohtar (Old Saxon)
  - dochter (Middle Low German)
    - Dochter (Low German)
*ᛞᛟᚺᛏᛖᚱ (*dohter), ᛞᛟᚺᛏᚱᛁᛉ (dohtriʀ) (Proto-Norse)
- dóttir (Old Norse)
  - duotter (Elfdalian)
  - dóttir (Faroese)
  - dóttir (Icelandic)
  - dotter (Norwegian Nynorsk)
*ᛞᛟᚺᛏᛖᚱ (*dohter), ᛞᛟᚺᛏᚱᛁᛉ (dohtriʀ) (Proto-Norse)
- dóttir (Old Norse)
  - datter (Danish)
    - datter (Norwegian Bokmål)
*ᛞᛟᚺᛏᛖᚱ (*dohter), ᛞᛟᚺᛏᚱᛁᛉ (dohtriʀ) (Proto-Norse)
- dóttir (Old Norse)
  - dōttir, doctir (Old Swedish)
    - dotter (Swedish)
𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌷𐍄𐌰𐍂 (dauhtar) (Gothic)

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