dot

The story

1. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*duttaz“wisp”
2. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*dott
3. Old English · inherited fromdott“a dot, point”
4. Middle English · inherited from*dot
5. English todaydot

From Middle English *dot, dotte, from Old English dott (“a dot, point”), from Proto-West Germanic *dott, from Proto-Germanic *duttaz (“wisp”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Dot, Dotte (“a clump”), Dutch dot (“lump, knot, clod”), Low German Dutte (“a plug”), dialectal Swedish dott (“a little heap, bunch, clump”).

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