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dou

See also: Appendix:Variations of "dou"

Afrikaans

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Etymology

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From Dutch dauw.

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Noun

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dou (uncountable)

  1. dew

Dutch

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Alternative forms

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  • douw (Hollandic, obsolete) (Stadsfries)

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Pronoun

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dou

  1. (Holland, dialectal, colloquial) Obsolete form of du.

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  • Dou was considered to belong to a particularly low-status register, associated with the speech of lower-class speakers from certain Hollandic dialects. Early modern texts from Holland for a general audience typically used du if they used the archaic second person singular at all, but dou is well-attested in farces. In Stadsfries and Bildts (the Dutch dialects traditionally spoken in Frisia), dou is still widely used.

Galician

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Verb

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dou

  1. first-person singular present indicative of dar

Krisa

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Noun

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dou

  1. hand, arm

Limburgish

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Alternative forms

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  • doe (widespread variant)
  • do (unstressed form)

Etymology

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From Proto-West Germanic *þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū, from Proto-Indo-European *túh₂.

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dou

  1. (Eupen, Krefeld) second-person singular, informal, nominative: you, thou

Mandarin

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Romanization

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dou

  1. Nonstandard spelling of dōu.
  2. Nonstandard spelling of dǒu.
  3. Nonstandard spelling of dòu.

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  • Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Manx

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dou (emphatic dooys)

  1. first-person singular of da

Norman

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

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Noun

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dou m (plural dous)

  1. (Jersey, geography) brook

Old French

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Contraction

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dou

  1. Alternative form of del

Portuguese

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Etymology

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From Latin dō.

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  • Rhymes: -ow, -o
  • Hyphenation: dou

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dou

  1. first-person singular present indicative of dar

Zhuang

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Etymology 1

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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “related to ตู (dtuu)?”

Pronoun

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dou (Sawndip forms 杜 or 都 or 头, 1957–1982 spelling dou)

  1. (exclusive) we; us

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Standard Zhuang personal pronouns
Person Singular Plural
1st exclusive gou dou
inclusive raeuz
2nd mwngz sou
3rd de gyoengqde

Etymology 2

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From Proto-Tai *tuːᴬ (“door”). Compare Thai ประตู (bprà-dtuu).

Noun

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dou (Sawndip forms 𫔯 or 都 or 偷, 1957–1982 spelling dou)

  1. door
    hai dou ― to open the door
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