doughter

• douȝter, dowȝter, doȝter, doghter, doghtyr, dowghter, doughtir, dochtyr, dohter, douhter, dowhter, douhtur, dogheter, dowter, dowtyr, doughtere, dohhterr
• doster, dostyr (influenced by late Old French, where s before a consonant represented /x/)

From Old English dohtor, from Proto-Germanic *duhtēr, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰugh₂tḗr.

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔu̯xtər/

doughter (plural doughters or doughtren or deghter or (rare) doughter or (rare) deghteres or (rare) dehtren, genitive doughter or doughters)

1. One's daughter; one's female direct progeny.
2. One of one's female inheritors (also used metaphorically in religion)
3. A woman who lives in or inhabits a certain nation.
4. A religious woman, especially one who has given herself to the monastic lifestyle.
5. A habit or behaviour viewed as one of the mental progeny of someone or something.
6. A term of friendship used when talking to a woman.

• douȝter in lawe

• English: daughter
• Scots: dochter

• “doughter (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-17.