doe
English edit
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /dəʊ/
- (US) enPR: dō, IPA(key): /doʊ/
- Rhymes: -əʊ
- Homophones: doh, d'oh, dough, do (in music)
Audio (UK): (file)
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English do, from Old English dā (“female deer”), from Proto-West Germanic *daijā, from Proto-Germanic *dajjǭ (“female deer, mother deer”), from Proto-Germanic *dajjaną (“to suckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck (milk), to suckle”).
Cognate with Scots da, dae (“female deer”), Alemannic German tē (“doe”), Danish då (“deer, doe”), Sanskrit धेनु (dhenú, “cow, milk-cow”), Old English dēon (“to suckle”), Old English delu (“teat”). Related also to female, filial, fetus.
Noun edit
doe (plural does)
- A female deer; also used of similar animals such as antelope (less commonly a goat, as nanny is also used).
- 1923 October, Robert Frost, “[Grace Notes.] Two Look at Two.”, in New Hampshire […], New York, N.Y.: Henry Holt and Company, →OCLC, page 95:
- A doe from round a spruce stood looking at them
Across the wall, as near the wall as they.
She saw them in their field, they her in hers.
- A female rabbit.
- A female hare.
- A female squirrel.
- A female kangaroo.
Synonyms edit
- (female deer): hind (female red deer)
- (female kangaroo): blue flyer (female red kangaroo)
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
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Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
doe (third-person singular simple present does, present participle doing or doth, simple past did or didde, past participle done)
- Obsolete spelling of do.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
- As salutations, reverences, or conges, by which some doe often purchase the honour, (but wrongfully) to be humble, lowly, and courteous […].
- 1620, Mayflower Compact:
- […] a voyage to plant yͤ first colonie in yͤ Northerne parts of Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly & mutualy in yͤ presence of God […]
Etymology 3 edit
Adverb edit
doe (not comparable)
Anagrams edit
Dutch edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
doe
- inflection of doen:
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle Dutch doe.
Adverb edit
doe
Conjunction edit
doe
Anagrams edit
Galician edit
Verb edit
doe
Limburgish edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle Dutch du, from Old Dutch thū, from Proto-West Germanic *þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū.
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
doe
Declension edit
nominative | accusative | dative | reflexive | ||||||
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str. | unstr. | str. | unstr. | str. | unstr. | ||||
1st person singular | ich | 'ch | mich | m'ch | mir | m'r | like dat. and acc. | ||
2nd person singular (informal) |
doe | de | dich | d'ch | dir | d'r | like dat. and acc. | ||
2nd person singular (formal) |
duur | 'r | uch | uch [əç] | uch | uch [əç] | like dat. and acc. | ||
3rd person singular | m | heë deë |
e de |
dem | d'm | hem dem |
'm | zich | |
f | zie het |
ze 't | |||||||
n | det | 't | |||||||
1st person plural | vir | v'r | ós | — | ós | — | like dat. and acc. | ||
2nd person plural | duur | 'r | uch | uch [əç] | uch | uch [əç] | like dat. and acc. | ||
3rd person plural | zie die |
ze | hön | — | hönnen | — | zich |
Lindu edit
Noun edit
doe
Middle Dutch edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Old Dutch thuo, related to thie (“that one”).
Adverb edit
doe
Alternative forms edit
Descendants edit
Conjunction edit
doe
- when, at the time that
Alternative forms edit
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb edit
doe
- inflection of doen:
Further reading edit
- “doe, doen (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- “doe, doen (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “doe (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I
Old Irish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Celtic *dowsants.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
döe f (genitive doat, nominative plural doit)
Inflection edit
Feminine nt-stem | |||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Nominative | doe | doitL | doit |
Vocative | doe | doitL | doitea |
Accusative | doitN | doitL | doitea |
Genitive | doat | doatL | doatN |
Dative | doitL | doitib | doitib |
Initial mutations of a following adjective:
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Descendants edit
Mutation edit
Old Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
doe | doe pronounced with /ð(ʲ)-/ |
ndoe |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
References edit
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*dowsant-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 103-104
Further reading edit
- Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “doe”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
Portuguese edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
doe
- inflection of doar:
Welsh edit
Etymology edit
See ddoe (“yesterday”)
Adverb edit
doe
West Frisian edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
Adverb edit
doe
- then, at that time (which is presumably in the past)
- Doe, saken wienen net lykas no.
- Then, things were not like now.
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “doe”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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