- Motto: "Fnargh." I'm going to cheat (:P) and use my Uni access
to the OED Online, which I recommend for any kind of
etymological need! Dough - Etymology: A Common Germanic n.: Old
English dáh, genitive dáges, = Old Frisian deeg, Dutch deg, Old
High German, Middle High German teic, German teig, Old Norse
deig, (Swedish deg, Danish deig, dei), Gothic daigs < Old
Germanic *daigoz, < verbal stem dig-, deig-, pre-Germanic
*dhigh- to form of clay, to knead: compare Sanskrit dih- to
besmear, Latin fig-, fingĕre; compare Greek τεῖχος wall. Tough -
Etymology: Old English tóh < *tǫnh < *tanh, Old Germanic
*taŋχu-z; North Frisian toch, tuch. From an Old Germanic stem
*taŋχ-, taŋg-, whence Old English ge-tęnge. Compare (with ending
of -ja declension) Old Saxon *tâhi (Middle Low German tâ, tei,
Low German taa, tage, tau, Dutch taai); Old High German zâhi
(Middle Low German zâhe, zæhe, zæch, German zähe, zäh) The
pronunciation for tough seems to remain pretty much unvaried,
and looking very close to present-day glottals