Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
A thick, malleable substance made by mixing flour with other ingredients such as water, eggs, or butter, that is made into a particular form and then baked. · Money. · Clipping of doughboy (“an infantryman”).
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo make into dough.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *dʰóyǵʰos Proto-Germanic *daigaz Proto-West Germanic *daig Old English dāg Middle English dogh English dough From Middle English dow, dogh, dagh, from Old English dāg, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz (“dough”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead, form, mold”). Cognate with Scots daich, dauch, doach (“dough”), North Frisian dii, Jai (“dough”), West Frisian daai (“dough”), Dutch deeg (“dough”), German Teig (“dough”), Low German and Luxembourgish Deeg (“dough”), Vilamovian taag (“dough”), Yiddish טייג (teyg, “dough”), Danish dej (“dough”), Faroese deiggj (“dough”), Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk deig (“dough”), Swedish deg (“dough”), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌲𐍃 (daigs, “dough”). The derivation of the second meaning (of money) is obscure, but dates to the mid 19th century.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentiondowenm
- Inherited-form mentiondāgang
- Inherited-form mention*daigazgem-pro
- Inherited-form mention*dʰeyǵʰ-ine-pro
- Cognate mentiondaichsco
- Cognate mentiondiifrr
- Cognate mentiondaaify
- Cognate mentiondeegnl
- Cognate mentionTeigde
- Cognate mentiontaagwym
- Cognate mentionטייגyi
- Cognate mentiondejda
- Cognate mentiondeiggjfo
- Cognate mentiondegsv
- Cognate mention𐌳𐌰𐌹𐌲𐍃got
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