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See also: Dow
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /daʊ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Rhymes: -aʊ
Etymology 1
From Middle English douen, from Old English dugan, from Proto-West Germanic *dugan, from Proto-Germanic *duganą.
Verb
dow (third-person singular simple present dows, present participle dowing, simple past and past participle dowed or dought)
- (Northern England, dialect, obsolete) To be worth.
- (Northern England, dialect, obsolete) To thrive, prosper.
Derived terms
Etymology 2
From Middle English dowen, from Old French douer, from Latin dōtō.
Verb
dow (third-person singular simple present dows, present participle dowing, simple past and past participle dowed)
Derived terms
Etymology 3
Noun
dow (plural dows)
- Alternative form of dhow (“sailing vessel”).
Etymology 4
Noun
dow (plural dows)
- Obsolete form of dove (“pigeon”).
- c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 71–74:
- The fauconer then was prest,
Came runnynge with a dow,
And cryed, ‘Stow, stow, stow!’
But she [his hawk] wold not bow.
Etymology 5
Noun
dow (plural dows)
- Alternative form of dah (“Burmese knife”).
Etymology 6
dow (plural dows)
- Initialism of day of the week
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Fula
Preposition
dow
References
- Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
German Low German
Etymology
From Middle Low German and Old Saxon dōf, from Proto-West Germanic *daub.
Cognate with English deaf. The second meaning stems from the old misconception that dumb or deaf people were mentally disabled. German doof is taken from this word.
Adjective
dow
Manx
Etymology
Noun
Middle English
Noun
dow
- alternative form of dogh
Scots
Etymology
From Middle English douen. Cognate with obsolete English dow.
Verb
dow
References
- “dow”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.
Sranan Tongo
Etymology
Noun
dow
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