We’ve been studying medieval history in our homeschool right now, which of course means learning about knights and the process they go through to become knights. Which naturally led to a question of where in the world the word dub came from.
Dub has been around since the days of Old English–its exact origins are unknown, but the theory is that it was borrowed from the Old French aduber, which meant “equip with arms, adorn.” That, in turn, may have originally been a Germanic word, though etymologists aren’t certain. At any rate, this borrowed word meant “to knight by ceremonially striking with a sword” as early as the 11th century.
By the late 1500s it had been extended to the less-specific meaning of “to provide with a name.”
Roseanna M. White is a bestselling, Christy Award winning author who has long claimed that words are the air she breathes. When not writing fiction, she’s homeschooling her two kids, editing, designing book covers, and pretending her house will clean itself. Roseanna is the author of a slew of historical novels that span several continents and thousands of years. Spies and war and mayhem always seem to find their way into her books…to offset her real life, which is blessedly ordinary.
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Roseanna, I always enjoy your Word of the Week posts! I used to read a lot of G.A. Henty historical novels to my kids when I was homeschooling. Great lunchtime learning disguised as entertainment 😁