dot English · revision 13225

− It is [[inh|ang|dott|t=speck, head of a boil]],^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986) a word recorded only once in Old English,^(Cresswell 2021)^(Etymonline) perhaps related to Dutch dot, a knot, tuft, Norwegian dott, a lump, wisp, and Old High German tutta, nipple, and to Old English dyttan, to stop up.^(Barnhart 1988)^(Etymonline)^(Hoad 1986) Its reappearance in the 16th century may be due to Dutch dot,^(Hoad 1986)^(NODE 1998) and Etymonline suggests that the modern word may instead imitate the mark of a touch with the pen.^(Etymonline)