dout

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See also: dö ut

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle English doute (“doubt”). More at doubt.

Noun

dout

  1. Obsolete spelling of doubt.
  2. Misspelling of doubt.

Etymology 2

Blend of do +‎ out, from Middle English don ut (“do out”). Compare don, doff, dup.

Verb

dout (third-person singular simple present douts, present participle douting, simple past and past participle douted)

  1. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To put out; quench; extinguish; douse.
    • 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, , page 86, column 1:
      Mount them, and make inciſion in their Hides, / That their hot blood may ſpin in Engliſh eyes, / And doubt them with ſuperfluous courage : ha.
    • 1893, J. Keighley Snowden, “The Angel Barmaid”, in Tales of the Yorkshire Worlds, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, page 136:
      The fire she lit in every breast was fanned rather than douted by the rumour presently puffed abroad that she was the recipient of letters addressed in a man’s handwriting.
  • douter, a cone-shaped device with a handle for extinguishing a candle and stopping the smoke.

Czech

Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech dúti, from Proto-Slavic *dǫti. Doublet of dmout.

Pronunciation

Verb

dout impf

  1. to blow, to gust
    Synonyms: vát, foukat

Conjugation

Conjugation of dout
infinitive dout, douti active adjective dující


verbal noun dutí passive adjective —
present forms indicative imperative
singular plural singular plural
1st person duji,
duju (coll.)		 dujeme — dujme
2nd person duješ dujete duj dujte
3rd person duje dují,
dujou (coll.)		 — —

The future tense: a combination of a future form of být + infinitive dout.

participles past participles passive participles
singular plural singular plural
masculine animate dul duli — —
masculine inanimate duly —
feminine dula —
neuter dulo dula — —
transgressives present past
masculine singular duje —
feminine + neuter singular dujíc —
plural dujíce —

Further reading

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German *dōd (attested in inflections), northern variant of tōt, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Cognate with German tot, Dutch dood, English dead, Icelandic dauður.

Pronunciation

Adjective

dout (masculine douden, neuter dout, comparative méi dout, superlative am doutsten)

  1. dead

Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

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