daughter
/ˈdɔːtə/ · noun
Meaning
- One’s female offspring.
- A female descendant.
- A daughter language.
- A nuclide left over from radioactive decay.
- A descendant.
- A female character of a creator.
- A familiar address to a female person from an older or otherwise more authoritative person.
Etymology / origin
From Middle English doghter, doughter, from Old English dohtor (“daughter”), from Proto-West Germanic *dohter, from Proto-Germanic *duhtēr, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr.
- *dʰugh₂tḗr(ine-pro)→
- *duhtēr(gem-pro)→
- *dohter(gmw-pro)→
- dohtor(Old English)→
- doghter(Middle English)→
- daughter (English)
- Relations: inh, inh, inh, inh, inh
Related words
doghter(Middle English)dohtor(Old English)*dohter(gmw-pro)*duhtēr(gem-pro)*dʰugh₂tḗr(ine-pro)tachter(Alemannic German)techter(Alemannic German)töchter(Alemannic German)θυγάτηρ(Ancient Greek)tochter(Bavarian)Tochter(German)दुख़्तर(Hindi)daata(Jamaican Creole)čhu(Kalasha)meita(Latvian)datter(Norwegian Bokmål)Dochder(Pennsylvania German)दुहितृ(Sanskrit)дьахтар(Yakut)
Descendant words
- tachter(Alemannic German) (cog)
- techter(Alemannic German) (cog)
- töchter(Alemannic German) (cog)
- θυγάτηρ(Ancient Greek) (cog)
- tochter(Bavarian) (cog)
- Tochter(German) (cog)
- दुख़्तर(Hindi) (cog)
- daata(Jamaican Creole) (der)
- daata(Jamaican Creole) (der)
- čhu(Kalasha) (cog)
- meita(Latvian) (cog)
- datter(Norwegian Bokmål) (cog)
- Dochder(Pennsylvania German) (cog)
- दुहितृ(Sanskrit) (cog)
- дьахтар(Yakut) (cog)
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