douth

İngilizce - İngilizce

douth teriminin İngilizce İngilizce sözlükte anlamı

a company, army, retinue

Alternative form of dought

(collectively) men, people

Etimoloji

() From Middle English douthe, duwethe (“body of retainers, people, might, dignity, worth”), from Old English duguþ (“manhood, host, multitude, troops”), from Proto-Germanic *dugunþō, *dugunþiz (“power, competency, notefulness”), from Proto-Germanic base *dug-, *daug- (“to be useful”), from Proto-Indo-European *dheughe- (“to be ready, be sufficient”). Cognate with Old Frisian duged (“power”), Old High German tugad, tugund (“virtue”), German Tugend, Swedish dygd. Related to dow, doughty.