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doe

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "doe"

Translingual

Etymology

From English Doe.

Symbol

doe

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

See also

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 (countable and uncountable, plural doe or 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.
    • 2024 July 23, Lilit Marcus, “Japan may be sick of mass tourism. But the deer in this ancient UNESCO-listed city love it”, in CNN‎:
      The city recently carried out a deer census, determining there are 313 stags (males), 798 does (females) and 214 fawns (babies) in Nara Park.
  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
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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[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

Adverb

doe (not comparable)

  1. (African-American Vernacular, MLE) though

Anagrams

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Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Verb

doe

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

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch doe.

Adverb

doe

  1. (now dialectal) alternative form of toen

Conjunction

doe

  1. (now dialectal) alternative form of toen

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Sranan Tongo du, probably from Ewe ɖú (“dance”), Fon ɖùwè (“dance”), from Proto-Gbe *ɖú (-we).

Noun

doe m (plural doe's, no diminutive)

  1. (Suriname, historical) a festival of song and dance organised and performed by and for enslaved people
Derived terms
  • doegezelschap

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Galician

Etymology 1

Verb

doe

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

Etymology 2

Verb

doe

  1. 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

  • IPA(key): [duː˨]
  • Hyphenation: doe
  • Rhymes: -uː

Pronoun

doe

  1. thou, you (singular)

Declension

More information nominative, accusative ...
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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

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