From: george knysh
Message: 57722
Date: 2008-04-20
>http://indoeuro.bizland.com/project/phonetics/word35.html
> The etymology of this word is rather dark.
>
>
>****GK: Preferably "dochka" or "don'ka". There is a
>
> 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
> Serbo-Croatian kchi,____________________________________________________________________________________
> Bulgarian d@...'a, Slovene hc'i, hc'erka, Old
> Czech dci, Czech &
> Slovak dcera, Polish cora, Russian doch'
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> 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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> kishore patnaik
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