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.

From Proto-Germanic *duhtēr.

*dohter f

1. daughter

• 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