doe

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dəʊ/
• (US) enPR: dō, IPA^(key): /doʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊ
• Homophones: doh, d'oh, dough, do (in music)

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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.

doe (plural 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.

2. A female rabbit.
3. A female hare.
4. A female squirrel.
5. A female kangaroo.

• (female deer): hind (female red deer)
• (female kangaroo): blue flyer (female red kangaroo)

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 […]

doe (not comparable)

1. (African-American Vernacular, MLE) though

• -ode, EDO, EOD, Edo, ODE, OED, deo, ode

• IPA^(key): /du/

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• Hyphenation: doe
• Rhymes: -u

doe

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

From Middle Dutch doe.

doe

1. (now dialectal) Alternative form of toen.

doe

1. (now dialectal) Alternative form of toen.

• deo

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

• du (German based spelling)
• dou (Eupen, Krefeld)
• de (unstressed form)
• -te (clitic)

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

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

doe

1. thou, you (singular)

doe

1. end; tip

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

doe

1. then, at that time, at the time
2. then, after that

• doen

• Dutch: toen
• Limburgish: doe

doe

1. when, at the time that

• doen

• Dutch: toen
• Limburgish: doe

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

doe

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

• “doe, doen (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “doe, doen (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “doe (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

From Proto-Celtic *dowsants.[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈdo.e/

döe f (genitive doat, nominative plural doit)

1. upper arm

• Middle Irish: dóit
  • Irish: dóid

• G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “doe”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

doe

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

See ddoe (“yesterday”)

doe

1. yesterday

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

• IPA^(key): /du/

doe

1. then, at that time (which is presumably in the past)

   Doe, saken wienen net lykas no.

   Then, things were not like now.

• doetiid

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