doghter – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of doghter

Noun: doghter
Sg.doghter
Pl.doghtres; doghtren; deghtren

Genitive

Sg.doghter; doghtres

Dative

Sample Sentences

  • 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.) [c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Matheu 10:35, folio 4, verso, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:]
  • ‘O dere doghter, ender of my lyf, (That thou were never out of my remembraunce!’
  • ‘O dear daughter, ender of my life,
  • Whom I have nurtured with such pleasure,
  • That thou were never out of my thoughts!’) [late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Physician's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 218-220]

Nouns inflected like doghter

doghter,

Etymology

1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *dʰewgʰ-?
3. Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
4. Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr
5. Proto-Germanic *duhtēr
6. Proto-West Germanic *dohter
7. Old English dohtor
8. Middle English doghter
9. Inherited from Old English dohtor, from Proto-West Germanic *dohter, from Proto-Germanic *duhtēr, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr, possibly from *dʰewgʰ- + *-tḗr.
10. The West Midland plurals deghtren and deghter are probably due to the analogy of bretheren, a plural of brother (“brother”); the pattern of attestation makes analogical extension from the Old English dative singular dehter less likely.

Verbs referencing "doghter"

English Nouns daughter.

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