donn

• don (northern Moselle Franconian, some dialects of Ripuarian)
• dun (southern Moselle Franconian)

From Old High German *duon, northern variant of tuon, from Proto-Germanic *dōną.

• IPA^(key): /don/

donn (third-person singular present deet or deit, past tense dät, past participle jedon or jedonn)

1. (many dialects of Ripuarian, including Kölsch) to do
2. (many dialects of Ripuarian, including Kölsch) used in the subjunctive with a following infinitive to form the conditional tense

   Ich dät jo noch jet blieve, ävver meng Frau well heem.

   I would stay some more, but my wife wants to go home.

• The past participle has an open vowel /ɔ/, either long or short, but never /o/ as in the infinitive.

• IPA^(key): /d̪ˠɔn̪ˠ/, /d̪ˠuːn̪ˠ/
• (Cois Fharraige) IPA^(key): /d̪ˠəun̪ˠ/

From Old Irish donn, from Proto-Celtic *dusnos (“brown”), from Proto-Indo-European *dusnos-, *donnos- (“dark”), from *dʰewh₂- (“smoke”).

donn (genitive singular masculine doinn, genitive singular feminine doinne, plural donna, comparative doinne)

1. brown
2. brown-haired, brunette
3. 1. made of hard brown timber
   2. strong, solid
4. used as intensifying term

Obsolete spellings

donn m or f (genitive singular doinn or doinne)

1. brown (colour)
2. brown animal (masculine or feminine declined differently)
3. hard brown timber

Feminine (only used to refer to a female brown animal)

donn (present analytic donnann, future analytic donnfaidh, verbal noun donnadh, past participle donnta)

1. (transitive, intransitive) Alternative form of donnaigh (“brown; tan, rust”)

From Old Irish donn (“chief, lord, noble”).

donn m (genitive singular doinn, nominative plural doinn)

1. (literary) noble, prince

• Donn m (proper noun)

donn f (genitive singular doinne, nominative plural donna)

1. Alternative form of dronn (“hump; camber”)

• "donn" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• “1 donn” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “2 donn” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• Entries containing “donn” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “donn” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

• IPA^(key): /don͈/

From Proto-Celtic *dusnos (“brown”).

donn

1. brown, tawny, dun
2. (of eyes) hazel
3. (of animals) chestnut

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

donn m

1. chief, lord, noble

   Synonyms: mál, toísech, túathach, úachtarán

2. lordship, chieftainship

   Synonyms: flaith, tigernas

• Irish: donn

donn

1. princely, noble

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

donn ?

1. theft, stolen property

• “1 donn” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “2 donn” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.
• “3 donn” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.

From Old Irish donn, from Proto-Celtic *dusnos (“brown”), from Proto-Indo-European *dusnos-, *donnos- (“dark”), from *dʰewh₂- (“smoke”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈt̪ɔun̪ˠ/

donn (comparative duinne)

1. brown
2. brown-haired, brunette

• comhachag-dhonn
• dreathan donn

• Faclair Gàidhlig Dwelly Air Loidhne, Dwelly, Edward (1911), Faclair Gàidhlig gu Beurla le Dealbhan/The Illustrated [Scottish] Gaelic-English Dictionary (10th ed.), Edinburgh: Birlinn Limited, →ISBN
• “1 donn” in Dictionary of the Irish Language, Royal Irish Academy, 1913–76.