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Esperanto
Noun
duon
- accusative singular of duo
Finnish
Noun
duon
- genitive singular of duo
Istriot
Noun
duon
- woman
1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 40:Che mai pioûn biela duon i’iê veisto al mondo,- That I haven’t ever seen a more beautiful woman in the world,
Northern Sami
Determiner
duon
- accusative/genitive singular of duot
Old Dutch
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *dōn, from Proto-Germanic *dōną. Cognates include Old High German tuon, Old English dōn and Old Frisian dwā.
Pronunciation
Verb
duon
- to do, to act
- Synonym: giduon
- c. 1100 CE, Leiden Willeram:
also deda unser drohtin- So did our Lord.
- c. 1100 CE, Rhinelandic Rhyming Bible:
petrus ande paulus baden. that se so ne deden- (Saint) Peter and (Saint) Paul asked if they wouldn't act like that.
- to treat
- c. 900 CE, Die altmittel- und altniederfränkischen Psalmen und Glossen :
cumit gehorit in tellon sal ic alla thia forhtit gode huo deda sela mina- Come, listen, and I will tell all that fear God, how he treated my soul. (Psalms 66:16)
- refers back to an earlier verb
- c. 1100 CE, Leiden Willeram:
hiz neuerid nu so niet, so hiz eer deda- It doesn't happen now as it did before.
- (auxiliary) to make, to let, forms causative verbs
- c. 900 CE, Die altmittel- und altniederfränkischen Psalmen und Glossen :
gehirmon duon uuir alla dag firlica godis fan erthon- We make all God's holidays vanish of the earth.
- to bring (to)
- c. 900 CE, Die altmittel- und altniederfränkischen Psalmen und Glossen :
huo gedana uurthun an te stornussi- How were they brought to destruction?
- to come (to one's end)
Inflection
Derived terms
Descendants
Further reading
- “duon”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012
Swedish
Noun
duon
- definite singular of duo
Welsh
Adjective
duon pl
- plural of du
Mutation