Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/dohter

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *duhtēr.

Noun

*dohter f

1. daughter

Inflection

R-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*dohter
Genitive	*dohtur
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*dohter	*dohtar
Accusative	*dohtar	*dohtar
Genitive	*dohtur	*dohtrō
Dative	*duhtri	*dohtrum
Instrumental	*duhtri	*dohtrum

Descendants

• Old English: dohtor, dohtur — Mercian, dohter — Northumbrian, dochtor, dæhter
  • Middle English: doughter
    • English: daughter
      • Australian Kriol: doda
    • Scots: dochter, daiter (rare, Orkney), daowter, dowter, dather (obsolete), dauchter, dother, douchter
    • Yola: doughtere, daughtere
• Old Frisian: dochter
  • North Frisian:

    Föhr-Amrum, Mooring: doochter

    Sylt: Daachter

  • Saterland Frisian: Dochter
  • West Frisian: dochter
• Old Saxon: dohtar
  • Middle Low German: dochter
    • German Low German: Dochter
• Old Dutch: dohter
  • Middle Dutch: dochter
    • Dutch: dochter
      • Afrikaans: dogter
      • Jersey Dutch: doxter
      • Negerhollands: dochter, dogter
      • Petjo: dohter
    • Limburgish: dóchter
• Old High German: tohter
  • Middle High German: tohter
    • Alemannic German: Tochter

      Italian Walser: techter, töchter, tachter

    • Bavarian:

      Cimbrian: tochtar, toustar, tochtar

      Mòcheno: tochter

      Udinese: tochter, touchter, toachtar

    • Central Franconian:

      Kölsch: Dochter

    • German: Tochter
    • Luxembourgish: Duechter
    • Rhine Franconian:

      Pennsylvania German: Dochder

    • Vilamovian: tohter
    • Yiddish: טאָכטער (tokhter)
    • → Piedmontese: tota