An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Docht

by Friedrich Kluge

Docht, m., ‘wick.’ The strictly ModHG. form should be dacht, which is still dialectal, as well as the variant tacht, with the t from þ, as in tausend, MidHG. and OHG. tâkt, m., n.; comp. OIc. þáttr, ‘thread, wick.’ A Teut. root, þêh, þêg, still appears in Swiss dœgel, ‘wick,’ Bav. dâhen, Alsat. dôche, ‘wick.’ In the non-Teut. languages no primit. root têk has as yet been found. For another OTeut. term for Docht, see under Wieche.