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Etymology

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Back-formation from dawning. (If the noun rather than the verb is primary, the noun could directly continue dawing.) Compare daw (to dawn).

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Verb

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dawn (third-person singular simple present dawns, present participle dawning, simple past and past participle dawned)

  1. (intransitive) To begin to brighten with daylight.
    A new day dawns.
  2. (intransitive, figurative) To start to appear or be realized.
    Synonym: (archaic or poetic) glimpse
    I don’t want to be there when the truth dawns on him.
  3. (intransitive, figurative) To begin to give promise; to begin to appear or to expand.

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Noun

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dawn (countable and uncountable, plural dawns)

  1. (uncountable) The morning twilight period immediately before sunrise.
  2. (countable) The rising of the sun.
    Synonyms: break of dawn, break of day, daybreak, day-dawn, dayspring, sunrise
  3. (uncountable) The time when the sun rises.
    Synonyms: break of dawn, break of day, crack of dawn, daybreak, day-dawn, dayspring, sunrise, sunup
    She rose before dawn to meet the train.
  4. (uncountable) The earliest phase of something.
    Synonyms: beginning, onset, start
    the dawn of civilization
    • 2013 August 3, “Yesterday’s fuel”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8847:
      The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania. The first barrels of crude fetched $18 (around $450 at today’s prices).

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Maltese

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Determiner

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dawn

  1. plural of dan
    Coordinate term: hedawn (hedawna)

Middle English

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Noun

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dawn

  1. Alternative form of dan

Welsh

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Middle Welsh dawn, from Proto-Brythonic *don, from Proto-Celtic *dānus (whence also Irish dán), from Proto-Indo-European *déh₃nom (gift). Compare Latin dōnum.

Noun

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dawn f (plural doniau)

  1. talent, natural gift, ability
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Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

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dawn

  1. first-person plural future colloquial of dod
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Mutation

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Mutated forms of dawn
radical soft nasal aspirate
dawn ddawn nawn unchanged

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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