Dohtig

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - dohtig

According to the Old English Dictionary:

dohtig
def. se dohtiga; adj. [dohte, p. of dugan to avail] DOUGHTY, valiant, good; fortis, valĭdus, probus :-- Forþférde Hacun, se dohtiga eorl, on sǽ Hakon, the doughty earl, died at sea, Chr. 1030: Erl. 162, 40. Ðyssa þinga is gecnǽwe ǽlc dohtig man on Cent [MS. Kænt] and on Súþ-Seaxum [MS. -Sexan] every good man in Kent and in Sussex is cognizant of these things, Th. Diplm. A.D. 1016-1020; 313, 19.

Related words: dyhtig. dohtig

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