doe

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

From Middle English do, from Old English dā (“female deer”), 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 fellatio, filial, fetus.

doe (plural does)

1. A female deer; also used of similar animals such as antelope, (less commonly goat as nanny is also used).
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

1. Obsolete spelling of do
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     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 ye first colonie in ye Northerne parts of Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly & mutualy in ye presence of God […]

doe (not comparable)

1. (African American Vernacular, MLE) though

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

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• Rhymes: -u
• IPA^(key): /du/

doe

1. first-person singular present indicative of doen
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of doen
3. imperative of doen

• deo

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

• IPA^(key): [duː˨]

doe

1. thou, you (singular)

• Dative is nowadays obsolete, use accusative instead.

doe

1. end; tip

From Old Dutch thuo.

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 main entry.

doe

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

• “doe, doen (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “doe, doen (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “doe (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.i/

doe

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of doar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of doar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of doar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of doar

doe

1. yesterday

• 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