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doe

See also: Appendix:Variations of "doe"

English edit

Pronunciation edit

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)

  1. 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, →OCLC, 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 , […]
  2. A female rabbit.
  3. A female hare.
  4. A female squirrel.
  5. 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)

  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 edit

Adverb edit

doe (not comparable)

  1. (African-American Vernacular, MLE) though

Anagrams edit

Dutch edit

Pronunciation edit

Etymology 1 edit

Verb edit

doe

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

Etymology 2 edit

From Middle Dutch doe.

Adverb edit

doe

  1. (now dialectal) Alternative form of toen.

Conjunction edit

doe

  1. (now dialectal) Alternative form of toen.

Anagrams edit

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

  1. thou, you (singular)

Declension edit

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

Lindu edit

Noun edit

doe

  1. end; tip

Middle Dutch edit

Etymology 1 edit

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

Adverb edit

doe

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

Conjunction edit

doe

  1. when, at the time that
Alternative forms edit
Descendants edit

Etymology 2 edit

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb edit

doe

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

Further reading edit

Old Irish edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Celtic *dowsants.[1]

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

döe f (genitive doat, nominative plural doit)

  1. upper arm

Inflection edit

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 edit

Mutation edit

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.

References edit

  1. ^ 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

Portuguese edit

Pronunciation edit

 
 

Verb edit

doe

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

Welsh edit

Etymology edit

See ddoe (“yesterday”)

Adverb edit

doe

  1. yesterday

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

  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 edit

Further reading edit

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