doughter

• douȝter, dowȝter, doȝter, doghter, doghtyr, dowghter, doughtir, dochtyr, dohter, douhter, dowhter, douhtur, dogheter, dowter, dowtyr, doughtere, dohhterr
• doster, dostyr (influenced by late Old French, where s before a consonant represented /x/)

From Old English dohtor, from Proto-West Germanic *dohter.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔu̯xtər/

doughter (plural doughters or doughtren or deghter or (rare) doughter or (rare) deghteres or (rare) dehtren, genitive doughter or doughters)

1. One's daughter; one's female direct progeny.
   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Matheu 10:35, page 4v, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     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.

   • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Clerk's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 442-444:

     Nat longe tyme after that this Grisild
     Was wedded, she a doughter hath y-bore,
     Al had hir lever have born a knave child.

     Not long time after this Griselda
     Was married, she has borne a daughter,
     Although she would rather have given birth to a male child.

2. One of one's female inheritors (also used metaphorically in religion)
3. A woman who lives in or inhabits a certain nation.
4. A religious woman, especially one who has given herself to the monastic lifestyle.
5. A habit or behaviour viewed as one of the mental progeny of someone or something.
6. A term of friendship used when talking to a woman.

• douȝter in lawe
• stepdoughter

• English: daughter
  • Kriol: doda
• Scots: dochter
• Yola: doughtere, daughtere

• “doughter, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-17.