Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗adj
Snug; comfortable; in easy circumstances.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryVirtue; excellence; atheldom; nobility; power; riches. · A group of people, especially an army or retinue. · Reliability; ease; security; shelter.
From Middle English douthe, douth, duweðe (“body of retainers, people, might, dignity, worth”), from Old English duguþ (“manhood, host, multitude, troops”), from Proto-West Germanic *dugunþu, *dugunþi, from Proto-Germanic *dugunþō (“power, competency, notefulness, virtue”), from *duganą (“to be useful”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewgʰ- (“to be ready, be sufficient”). Cognate with North Frisian døgd, døged (“ability, good deed”), Dutch deugd (“virtue”), German Tugend (“virtue”), Swedish dygd (“virtue”), Danish dyd (“virtue”), Icelandic dygð, dyggð (“virtue”). Related to dow, doughty.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*dʰewgʰ-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentiondoutheenm
- Inherited-form mentionduguþang
- Inherited-form mention*dugunþugmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*dugunþōgem-pro
- Derivation mention*dʰewgʰ-ine-pro
- Cognate mentiondøgdfrr
- Cognate mentiondeugdnl
- Cognate mentionTugendde
- Cognate mentiondygdsv
- Cognate mentiondydda
- Cognate mentiondygðis
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