doe
EnglishEdit
PronunciationEdit
- (UK) IPA(key): /dəʊ/
- (US) enPR: dō, IPA(key): /doʊ/
- Rhymes: -əʊ
- Homophones: doh, d'oh, dough, do (in music)
Audio (UK) (file)
Etymology 1Edit
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.
NounEdit
doe (plural does)
- A female deer; also used of similar animals such as antelope, (less commonly goat as nanny is also used).
- 1995, News of the Universe: Poems of Twofold Consciousness (Sierra Club Books Publication)[1], University of California Press, →ISBN, LCCN 79012812, OCLC 1020196148, page 87:
- ...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 .
The difficulty of seeing what stood still , […]
- A female rabbit.
- A female hare.
- A female squirrel.
- A female kangaroo.
SynonymsEdit
- (female deer): hind (female red deer)
- (female kangaroo): blue flyer (female red kangaroo)
Derived termsEdit
TranslationsEdit
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Etymology 2Edit
VerbEdit
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 946730821:
- 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 3Edit
AdverbEdit
doe (not comparable)
AnagramsEdit
DutchEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
VerbEdit
doe
- first-person singular present indicative of doen
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of doen
- imperative of doen
Etymology 2Edit
From Middle Dutch doe.
AdverbEdit
doe
ConjunctionEdit
doe
AnagramsEdit
LimburgishEdit
Alternative formsEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle Dutch du, from Old Dutch thū, from Proto-West Germanic *þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū.
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
doe
DeclensionEdit
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 |
LinduEdit
NounEdit
doe
Middle DutchEdit
Etymology 1Edit
From Old Dutch thuo, related to thie (“that one”).
AdverbEdit
doe
Alternative formsEdit
DescendantsEdit
ConjunctionEdit
doe
- when, at the time that
Alternative formsEdit
DescendantsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
VerbEdit
doe
- inflection of doen:
Further readingEdit
- “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 IrishEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Proto-Celtic *dowsants.[1]
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
döe f (genitive doat, nominative plural doit)
InflectionEdit
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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MutationEdit
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. |
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009), “*dowsant-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 103-104
Further readingEdit
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “doe”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
PortugueseEdit
PronunciationEdit
VerbEdit
doe
- inflection of doar:
WelshEdit
EtymologyEdit
See ddoe (“yesterday”)
AdverbEdit
doe
West FrisianEdit
EtymologyEdit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
PronunciationEdit
AdverbEdit
doe
- then, at that time (which is presumably in the past)
- Doe, saken wienen net lykas no.
- Then, things were not like now.
Derived termsEdit
Further readingEdit
- “doe”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011