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> > 1. As Piotr has remarked several times, the first syllable of
> > _duhita:_ 'daughter' is long by position. The explanation is that in
> > open syllables a vocalic laryngeal had resolved itself into consonant
> > plus vowel, only for the consonant to subsequently vanish leaving just
> > /i/.
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The etymology of this word is rather dark.
http://indoeuro.bizland.com/project/phonetics/word35.html
Proto-Indo-European Roots
Root/Stem: *dhugh@...
Meanings: a daughter
Cognates:
Hellenic Greek thugatér (a daughter)
Italic
Celtic Gaulish duxtir (a daughter), Old Irish der- (in composite names)
Indic Sanskrit duhitá-, duhitar- (a daughter)
Dardic & Nuristani Khowar zhur (a daughter), Prasun lut (a daughter)
Iranian Avestan dug@... (a daughter),
Persian duxtar, duxt
Anatolian
Tocharian Tocharian A ckacar, Tocharian B tkac'er (a daughter)
Armenian dustr (a daughter), gen. dster
Germanic Common Germanic *doxtir (a daughter), >
Gothic dauhtar, Old English & Old Saxon dohtor, Runic Scandianvian
dohtriR (nom. pl.), Old Icelandic dóttir, Old High German tohter, Old
Frisian dochter
Swedish dotter, German Tochter, Scots dochter
Baltic Lithuanian dukte. (a daughter), Old Prussian duckti, Sudovian dukté
Slavic Common Slavic *dütjí (a daughter), >
Ukrainian doch, Old Church Slavonic düshti, Serbo-Croatian kchi,
Bulgarian d@...'a, Slovene hc'i, hc'erka, Old Czech dci, Czech &
Slovak dcera, Polish cora, Russian doch'
Notes: The etymology of this word seems rather dark, unlike that of
the previous ones: 'father, mother, sister'. It is the last in the
series shaped by the suffix -er and therefore belonging to r-stem nouns.
A few branches replaced this stem by another one, for instance Italic
and Celtic, again for unknown reasons.
The unstressed vowel of the second syllable is the Indo-European
'schwa' which was dropped in Armenian, Germanic, Baltic, Slavic, and
Iranian languages.
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