dohtor – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of dohtor

Noun: dohtor
Gender: f

Nominative

Singulardohtor
Pluraldohtor; dohtra; dohtru

Genitive

Singulardohtor
Pluraldohtra

Dative

Singulardehter
Pluraldohtrum

Accusative

Singulardohtor
Pluraldohtor; dohtra; dohtru

Sample Sentences

  • 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.)

Nouns inflected like dohtor

dohtor,

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *dohter. Cognate with German Tochter and Dutch dochter. See: German Nouns 'Tochter', Dutch Nouns 'dochter'.

Verbs referencing "dohtor"

English Nouns daughter, Old Norse Nouns dóttir, Ancient Greek Nouns θυγάτηρ.

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