- dohtig
- adj competent, good, valiant, doughty [dugan]
Old to modern English dictionary. 2013.
dohtig
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doughty — adjective (doughtier; est) Etymology: Middle English, from Old English dohtig; akin to Old High German toug is useful, Greek teuchein to make Date: before 12th century marked by fearless resolution ; valiant < a doughty warrior > • … New Collegiate Dictionary
dheugh- — To produce something of utility. 1. doughty, from Old English dyhtig, dohtig, strong (< “productive”), from Germanic extended form *duht . 2. Suffixed form *dheugh os . Heptateuch, Hexateuch, Pentateuch, from Greek teukhos ( … Universalium
doughty — doughtily, adv. doughtiness, n. /dow tee/, adj., doughtier, doughtiest. steadfastly courageous and resolute; valiant. [bef. 1000; ME; OE dohtig worthy, equiv. to *doht worth (c. OHG toht; see DOW1, TH1) + ig Y1; r. OE dyhtig, c. G tüchtig] Syn.… … Universalium
Dofty — This interesting surname of English origin is a nickname for a powerful or brave man, especially a champion jouster, deriving from the Middle English doughty , Olde English pre 7th Century dohtig dyhtig meaning valiant or strong . The surname… … Surnames reference
Doughty — This interesting surname of English origin is a nickname for a powerful or brave man, especially a champion jouster, deriving from the Middle English doughty , Olde English pre 7th Century dohtig dyhtig meaning valiant or strong . The surname… … Surnames reference
Douty — This interesting surname of English origin is a nickname for a powerful or brave man, especially a champion jouster, deriving from the Middle English doughty , Olde English pre 7th Century dohtig dyhtig meaning valiant or strong . The surname… … Surnames reference
Dowty — This interesting surname of English origin is a nickname for a powerful or brave man, especially a champion jouster, deriving from the Middle English doughty , Olde English pre 7th Century dohtig dyhtig meaning valiant or strong . The surname… … Surnames reference
Dufty — Recorded as Douty, Dowty, Doughty, Dofty, and Dufty, this interesting surname is English. It was originally a nickname for a powerful or brave man, especially a champion jouster , and derives from the Olde English pre 7th Century word dohtig… … Surnames reference
doughty — dough|ty [ˈdauti] adj [only before noun] literary [: Old English; Origin: dohtig] brave and determined … Dictionary of contemporary English
doughty — [11] Doughty originally had the rather general sense ‘worthy, virtuous’ – ‘brave’ is a secondary specialization. It comes from late Old English dohtig, an unexplained variant of an earlier Old English dyhtig, which appears to have derived… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
