An archaic or dialectal spelling of 'daughter.'
Variant spelling from Middle English and Old English 'dohter,' showing how pronunciation shifted while older spellings persisted in some regions. Related to Old Germanic languages.
This is why English spelling is so weird—we stopped pronouncing the 'h' in 'daughter' centuries ago, but we kept it in the spelling! Medieval scribes wrote 'dohter' phonetically, and it evolved into our modern spelling that almost nobody pronounces correctly.
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