The story
- Latin · derived fromdōtō“to endow”
- Old French · derived fromdouage
- English todaydowage
From Old French douage, from douer + -age, from Latin dōtō (“to endow”), from dōs (“dowry”). By surface analysis, dow + -age.
Words from the same roots
Latindōtō all →
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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.