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doe

See also: Appendix:Variations of "doe"

Translingual

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doe

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Doe.

English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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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

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doe (plural does)

  1. 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.
  2. A female rabbit.
  3. A female hare.
  4. A female squirrel.
  5. A female kangaroo.
Synonyms
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  • (female deer): hind (female red deer)
  • (female kangaroo): blue flyer (female red kangaroo)
Derived terms
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Translations
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female goat — see she-goat
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Etymology 2

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Verb

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doe (third-person singular simple present does, present participle doing or doth, simple past did or didde, past participle done)

  1. 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

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Adverb

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doe (not comparable)

  1. (African-American Vernacular, MLE) though

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Verb

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doe

  1. inflection of doen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive
    3. imperative

Etymology 2

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From Middle Dutch doe.

Adverb

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doe

  1. (now dialectal) Alternative form of toen.

Conjunction

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doe

  1. (now dialectal) Alternative form of toen.

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Galician

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Verb

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doe

  1. inflection of doar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
  2. inflection of doer:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Limburgish

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Middle Dutch du, from Old Dutch thū, from Proto-West Germanic *þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū.

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Pronoun

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doe

  1. thou, you (singular)

Declension

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Limburgish (Southeast) personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative reflexive
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

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Noun

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doe

  1. end; tip

Middle Dutch

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Etymology 1

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From Old Dutch thuo, related to thie (“that one”).

Adverb

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doe

  1. then, at that time, at the time
  2. then, after that
Alternative forms
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Descendants
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  • Dutch: toen
  • Limburgish: doe

Conjunction

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doe

  1. when, at the time that
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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doe

  1. inflection of doen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    3. singular imperative

Further reading

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Old Irish

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Etymology

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From Proto-Celtic *dowsants.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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döe f (genitive doat, nominative plural doit)

  1. upper arm

Inflection

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Feminine nt-stem
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:
  • H = triggers aspiration
  • L = triggers lenition
  • N = triggers nasalization

Descendants

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Mutation

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Old Irish mutation
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.

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  1. ^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*dowsant-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 103-104

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Portuguese

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Verb

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doe

  1. inflection of doar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Welsh

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Etymology

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See ddoe (“yesterday”)

Adverb

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doe

  1. yesterday

West Frisian

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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doe

  1. then, at that time (which is presumably in the past)
    Doe, saken wienen net lykas no.
    Then, things were not like now.

Derived terms

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Further reading

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  • “doe”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011
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