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resolvedestablished

Does dough descend from lady or lady from dough?

Neither. The dough noun and lady’s kneading component follow separate Germanic formations that meet at *dheigh-.

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dough

/doʊ/ · noun

A kneadable flour mixture; inherited from Old English dāg through a Germanic formation on the Indo-European form-and-build root.

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SOURCE 01supportsscholarly reference

Indo-European Root: dheigh-

Distinguishes lady’s *dīg- branch from dough’s *daigaz branch.

dheigh- items 2 and 3

AUTHOR / EDITOR: Calvert Watkins and American Heritage Dictionary Editors
YEAR: 2022
PUBLISHER: HarperCollins

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THE CURRENT RECORD IS RESOLVED.

CONFIDENCE: established
STATUS: resolved
LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY: The root appendix lists Germanic *daigaz and *dīg- on distinct branches under the same form-and-build root.

RESOLUTION NOTE

The graph reuses the root while preserving both formations.

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