different between doe vs doeskin

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d??/
• (US) enPR: d?, IPA^(key): /do?/
• Rhymes: -??
• Homophones: doh, dough, do (in music)

Etymology 1

From Middle English do, from Old English d? (“female deer”), from Proto-Germanic *dajj? (“female deer, mother deer”), from Proto-Germanic *dajjan? (“to suckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?eh?(y)- (“to suck (milk), to suckle”).

Cognate with Scots da, dae (“female deer”), Alemannic German t? (“doe”), Danish då (“deer, doe”), Sanskrit ???? (dhenú, “cow, milk-cow”), Old English d?on (“to suckle”), Old English delu (“teat”). Related also to female, filial, fetus.

Noun

doe (plural does)

1. A female deer; also used of similar animals such as antelope, (less commonly goat as nanny is also used).
2. A female rabbit.
3. A female hare.
4. A female squirrel.
5. A female kangaroo.

Synonyms

• (female deer): hind (female red deer)
• (female kangaroo): blue flyer (female red kangaroo)

Translations

Etymology 2

Verb

doe (third-person singular simple present does, present participle doing or doth, simple past did or didde, past participle done)

1. Obsolete spelling of do
   • 1620 Mayflower Compact

     […] a voyage to plant y? first colonie in y? Northerne parts of Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly & mutualy in y? presence of God […]

Etymology 3

Adverb

doe (not comparable)

1. (African-American Vernacular, MLE) though

Anagrams

• -ode, EDO, EOD, Edo, ODE, OED, deo, ode

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du/
• Hyphenation: doe
• Rhymes: -u

Etymology 1

Verb

doe

1. first-person singular present indicative of doen
2. (archaic) singular present subjunctive of doen
3. imperative of doen

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch doe.

Adverb

doe

1. (now dialectal) Alternative form of toen.

Conjunction

doe

1. (now dialectal) Alternative form of toen.

Anagrams

• deo

Limburgish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch du, from Old Dutch th?, from Proto-West Germanic *þ?, from Proto-Germanic *þ?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [du??]

Pronoun

doe

1. thou, you (singular)

Inflection

• Dative is nowadays obsolete, use accusative instead.

Lindu

Noun

doe

1. end; tip

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch thuo, related to thie (“that one”).

Adverb

doe

1. then, at that time, at the time
2. then, after that

Alternative forms

• doen

Descendants

• Dutch: toen
• Limburgish: doe

Conjunction

doe

1. when, at the time that

Alternative forms

• doen

Descendants

• Dutch: toen
• Limburgish: doe

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

doe

1. inflection of doen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   3. singular imperative

Further reading

• “doe, doen (I)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• “doe, doen (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “doe (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN, page I

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *dowsants.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?do.e/

Noun

döe f (genitive doat, nominative plural doit)

1. upper arm

Inflection

Mutation

Further reading

• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “doe”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

References

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?do.i/

Verb

doe

1. first-person singular (eu) present subjunctive of doar
2. third-person singular (ele and ela, also used with você and others) present subjunctive of doar
3. third-person singular (você) affirmative imperative of doar
4. third-person singular (você) negative imperative of doar

Welsh

Etymology

See ddoe (“yesterday”)

Adverb

doe

1. yesterday

West Frisian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /du/

Adverb

doe

1. then, at that time (which is presumably in the past)

Derived terms

• doetiid

Further reading

• “doe”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Etymology

doe +? skin.

Noun

doeskin (countable and uncountable, plural doeskins)

1. (uncountable) Leather from the skin of a female deer or sheep.
2. (countable) The hide of a doe, as opposed to a buck.

   Frequently, doeskins had a higher value in trade than the skins of bucks, as they were considered of finer quality.

3. (countable, chiefly in the plural) A glove made of doeskin leather.

   Elizabeth accidentally left her doeskins on the pew at Sunday service.

4. (uncountable) A very soft, close-napped fabric, especially of high quality.
   • 1905, William Cowper Brann, The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 [3]:

     In the morning Mr. Logan wore a doeskin box coat with pearl buttons nearly as large as alarm clocks in two rows on it.

Hyponyms

• skin