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dow

See also: DOW and Dow

Translingual

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Etymology

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Clipping of English Dowayo.

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dow

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

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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle English douen, from Old English dugan, from Proto-West Germanic *dugan, from Proto-Germanic *duganą.

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dow (third-person singular simple present dows, present participle dowing, simple past and past participle dowed or dought)

  1. (Northern England, dialect, obsolete) To be worth.
  2. (Northern England, dialect, obsolete) To thrive, prosper.
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English dowen, from Old French douer, from Latin dōtō.

Verb

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dow (third-person singular simple present dows, present participle dowing, simple past and past participle dowed)

  2. To furnish with a dower; to endow.
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Etymology 3

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Noun

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dow (plural dows)

  1. Alternative form of dhow (“sailing vessel”).

Etymology 4

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Noun

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dow (plural dows)

  1. 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.

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Noun

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dow (plural dows)

  1. Alternative form of dah (“Burmese knife”).

Etymology 6

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Noun

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dow (countable and uncountable, plural dows)

  1. Obsolete form of dough
    • 1648, Robert Herrick, “The Bride-Cake”, in Hesperides‎[1]:
      This day my Julia thou must make
      For Mistresse Bride, the wedding Cake:
      Knead but the Dow, and it will be
      To paste of Almonds turn’d by thee:
      Or kisse it thou, but once, or twice,
      And for the Bride-Cake ther’l be Spice.

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Noun

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dow (plural dows)

  1. Initialism of day of the week

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Fula

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Preposition

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dow

  1. (Pular, Maasina) above, over
    Lewru ndun no wenngaa dow to weeyo.
    The moon hangs very high up in the sky.

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Low German

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Etymology

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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

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dow (German Low German)

  1. deaf
  2. dumb (not clever)

Manx

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Etymology

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From Old Irish dam (“ox, stag”).

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dow m (genitive singular ?, plural dew)

  1. ox
  2. stag, hart

Middle English

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Noun

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dow

  1. alternative form of dogh

Scots

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Etymology

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From Middle English douen. Cognate with obsolete English dow.

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dow

  1. (obsolete) to be of use, have value
  2. (obsolete) to have the strength for, to be able to
  3. (archaic) to thrive, to prosper

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Sranan Tongo

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Etymology

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From Dutch dauw.

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dow

  1. dew
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