doe

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English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

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

doe (plural does)

  1. A female deer; also used of similar animals such as antelope (less commonly a goat, as nanny is also used).
  2. A female rabbit.
  3. A female hare.
  4. A female squirrel.
  5. A female kangaroo.
Synonyms
  • (female deer): hind (female red deer)
  • (female kangaroo): blue flyer (female red kangaroo)
Derived terms
Translations
female goat — see she-goat
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Etymology 2

Verb

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 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

Adverb

doe (not comparable)

  1. (African-American Vernacular, MLE) though

Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Verb

doe

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

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch doe.

Adverb

doe

  1. (now dialectal) Alternative form of toen.

Conjunction

doe

  1. (now dialectal) Alternative form of toen.

Anagrams

Galician

Verb

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

Alternative forms

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Pronoun

doe

  1. thou, you (singular)

Declension

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 uch uch 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 uch uch like dat. and acc.
3rd person plural zie
die 		ze hön — hönnen — zich

Lindu

Noun

doe

  1. end; tip

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

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

Adverb

doe

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

Conjunction

doe

  1. when, at the time that
Alternative forms
Descendants

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

doe

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

Further reading

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *dowsants.

Pronunciation

Noun

döe f (genitive doat, nominative plural doit)

  1. upper arm

Inflection

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

Mutation

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

  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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

 
 

Verb

doe

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

Welsh

Etymology

See ddoe (“yesterday”)

Adverb

doe

  1. yesterday

West Frisian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

Adverb

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

Further reading

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