daughter: [OE] Daughter is an ancient word which goes back to Indo-European *dhugh? tēr. Apart from Latin and the Romance languages (with filia and its descendants) and Celtic (Welsh has merch), all the Indo-European languages have inherited this form: Greek had thugátēr, Armenian dustr, Old Slavic dusti (whence Russian doch’), and Sanskrit duhitar-.
The prehistoric Germanic word was *dohtēr, which produced Gothic dauhtar, German tochter, Dutch dochter, Swedish dotter, Danish datter, and of course English daughter. It is not known where the Indo-European word ultimately came from, although correspondences have been suggested with Sanskrit duh- ‘milk’ and Greek teúkho ‘make’.
daughter (n.)
Old English dohtor, from Proto-Germanic *dokhter, earlier *dhukter (cognates: Old Saxon dohtar, Old Norse dottir, Old Frisian and Dutch dochter, German Tochter, Gothic dauhtar), from PIE *dhugheter (cognates: Sanskrit duhitar-, Avestan dugeda-, Armenian dustr, Old Church Slavonic du?ti, Lithuanian dukte, Greek thygater). The common Indo-European word, lost in Celtic and Latin (Latin filia "daughter" is fem. of filius "son"). The modern spelling evolved 16c. in southern England. Daughter-in-law is attested from late 14c.
雙語例句
1. It's plain that he adores his daughter, and the feeling is mutual.
明擺著他很喜歡自己的女兒，而且女兒也喜歡他。
來自柯林斯例句
2. His daughter was very active and noisy in the mornings.
他的女兒一到上午就很好動，吵吵鬧鬧的。
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3. She even claimed the couple's daughter was possessed by the devil.
她甚至宣稱那對夫婦的女兒被魔鬼附了體。
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4. He wants to transfer some money to the account of his daughter.
他想把一些錢轉到女兒的賬戶上。
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5. She shared her daughter's disdain for her fellow countrymen.