doat

See also: Doat

English

Verb

doat (third-person singular simple present doats, present participle doating, simple past and past participle doated)

1. Obsolete spelling of dote.
   • 1676, Aphra Behn, “The Town-Fop”, in The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III‎^[1]:

     Ye all doat upon him, but he's not the Man you take him for.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

     I took any means to get access to you. O speak to me, Sophia! comfort my bleeding heart. Sure no one ever loved, ever doated like me.

   • 1786, Robert Burns, “Song, Composed in Spring”, in Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns‎^[2]:

     --And maun I still on Menie doat, And bear the scorn that's in her e'e?

   • 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XVIII, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 346:

     “Is not she looking well?” said he, turning his eyes towards Jane. “Better than she ever used to do?—You see how my father and Mrs. Weston doat upon her.”

   • 1825, William Hazlitt, “Mr. Coleridge”, in The Spirit of the Age […] , London: Printed for Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:

     We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and doat on past atchievements^[sic].

Anagrams

• DOTA, Dato, DotA, Dota, toad

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from French doigt (“finger”) (with modified pronunciation : fr: [dwa] > vo: [doˈat]).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [doˈat]

Noun

doat (nominative plural doats)

1. finger

Declension

declension of doat

	singular	plural
nominative	doat	doats
genitive	doata	doatas
dative	doate	doates
accusative	doati	doatis
vocative 1	o doat!	o doats!
predicative 2	doatu	doatus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms

Derived terms

• doatahät (“thimble”)
• doatabomil (“phalanx (finger bone)”) (bom, (bomil)
• doatanuel (“fingernail”) (nuel, nuelik)
• doatik
• doatön
• (-ön)

See also

• döm (dömik)
• fut (futik, futayoin)
• nam (namik, namiko)
• riet (rietik, rietayoin)
• rikül (rikülik)
• tean (teanik, teananuel)