The plural or variant form of doigt; fingers or toes as a unit of measurement.
French plural form of doigt, used in Anglo-Norman legal and scientific documents. Represents the Anglo-French linguistic influence on Middle English.
After 1066, French became the language of the English court and scholarship, so technical terms like doigte appear in 700-year-old English medical texts—you can literally read the linguistic conquest in the archives.
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