Etymology — The Origins of English Words

From draft + -er.

From draught + board.

The adjective is derived from Middle English doughty (“brave, bold, valiant”), from Old English dohtiġ, dyhtiġ (“competent, good, strong, valiant”), from Proto-West Germanic *duhtīg. The English word may be analysed as dought + -y, and is cognate with Scots douchty, douchtie (“bold, valiant”), Dutch duchtig (“severe, strict”), German tüchtig (“capable, competent, efficient; big; hard”), Danish dygtig (“virtuous, proficient”), Swedish duktig (“efficient; good; capable, clever, smart”), Icelandic dygðugur (“virtuous, stable”). The noun is derived from the adjective.

From Middle English doleful, doolful, deolful, equivalent to dole + -ful.

From Dobb (“a medieval diminutive form of the given name Robert”) + -ie; thus archaically equivalent to Bobby. Cognate with English Dobbin.

Respelling of “do for”, as in “it will do for that job”.

From dog + sitter or dogsit + -er.

From Latin docēns, present participle of doceō (“to teach”). In the meaning of a university grade, as used in some Central European countries, it is clipped version of private docent, privat-docent, from German Privatdozent, from German Dozent.

From dis- + unification.

A variant of Duncan.

From Japanese 道場長 (dōjōchō, literally “dojo chief, dojo head”).

From Middle English draf, likely from an unrecorded Old English *dræf, from Proto-Germanic *drabaz.

From dis- + remember.

From Middle English dighten, dihten, (also dyten, from whence dite), from Old English dihtan, dihtian (“to set in order; dispose; arrange; appoint; direct; compose”), from Proto-West Germanic *dihtōn (“to compose; invent”), of disputed origin. Possibly from a derivative of Proto-Germanic *dīkaną (“to arrange; create; perform”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵ-, *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to knead; shape; mold; build”), influenced by Latin dictāre; or perhaps from Latin dictāre (“to dictate”) itself. See dictate; and also parallel formations in German dichten, Dutch dichten, Swedish dikta.

From Middle English dogge tothe, calque of Latin dens caninus (“doglike tooth”). Equivalent to dog + tooth.

From dog + back, modelled on horseback.

From Latin discommodatus, past participle of discommodare, from dis- + commodare (“to make fit, help”).

Shitgibbon compound of douche + burger.

From the Hanyu Pinyin romanization of the Mandarin 東北 /东北 (Dōngběi).

From French duchesse. Doublet of duchess.

Learned borrowing from Latin dīluvium (“flood”), from lavō (“to wash”). Doublet of deluge.

From Dodge + -son, from the given name Roger.

From Middle English dissuasioun, from Middle French dissuasion.

Deverbal from drain out.