different between doit vs dont

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??t/

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Middle Low German doyt, cognate with Middle Dutch duit. Doublet of thwaite.

Noun

doit (plural doits)

1. (historical) A small Dutch coin, equivalent to one-eighth of a stiver.
   • c. 1606, Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, Act 4, Scene 12:

     most monster-like, be shown / For poor'st diminutives, for doits;
2. (archaic) A small amount; a bit, a jot.
   • 1819, — Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

     “Speak out, ye Saxon dogs — what bid ye for your worthless lives? — How say you, you of Rotherwood?” “Not a doit I,” answered poor Wamba.

   • 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 2 scene 2

     When / they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they / will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.

3. (music) In jazz music, a note that slides to an indefinite pitch chromatically upwards.
   • 1995, Music & Computers (volume 1, issues 2-4, page 57)

     Jazz symbols include many contoured articulations and inflections, such as doits, fall-offs, and scoops.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Scots doit, apparently a Scots cognate of dote.

Verb

doit (third-person singular simple present doits, present participle doiting, simple past and past participle doited)

1. (Scotland, rare) To stumble; to blunder.
   • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner:

     I trembled with astonishment; and on my return from the small window went doiting in amongst the weaver's looms, tillI entangled myself, and could not get out again without working great deray amongst the coarse linen threads that stood in warp from one end of the apartment unto the other.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dwa/
• Homophones: doigt, doigts, dois, doua, douas, douât

Verb

doit

1. third-person singular present indicative of devoir: must, has to

Old French

Alternative forms

• dei
• deit
• doi

Etymology

From Latin digitus.

Noun

doit m (oblique plural doiz or doitz, nominative singular doiz or doitz, nominative plural doit)

1. finger (appendage)

Descendants

• Angevin: daigt
• Lorrain: dogt
• Middle French: doigt
  • French: doigt
    • Haitian Creole: dwèt
• Norman: deigt, dé
• Picard: doét
• Walloon: doet

Welsh

Alternative forms

• delet (colloquial)
• deuit (literary)
• deuet (literary)
• doet (colloquial)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d?i?t/

Verb

doit

1. (literary) second-person singular imperfect/conditional of dod

Mutation

English

Contraction

dont

1. Misspelling of don't.

Breton

Alternative forms

• doned

Etymology

A suppletive verb. The verbal noun is from Middle Breton donet (influenced by monet (“to go”)), from Old Breton diminet. Cognate with Welsh dyfod, dod, and Cornish dos, dones; from Old Breton di, do + monet (“to go”). The other forms are from Proto-Celtic *toageti, itself also a suppletive verb (stemming from *ageti (“to drive”) and *pelh?-). See also Old Irish do·aig (“to drive off”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??nt/

Verb

dont

1. (intransitive) to come

Inflection

Conjugation

Derived terms

• a zeu

Danish

Noun

dont

1. a (piece of) work, a deed

French

Etymology

From Middle French dont, from Old French dunt, from Vulgar Latin/Latin d? unde (“from where”). Compare Spanish donde (“where”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??/
• Homophones: dom, don, dons
• Rhymes: -??

Pronoun

dont

1. of/from whom/which, whose

   Vous rappelez-vous ce dont je vous ai parlé ?

   Do you remember that of which we spoke?

   Il n’est rien dont je sois encore certain.

   It is nothing of which I am still certain.

   Quel est le pays dont provient cette marchandise suspecte ?

   What is the country from which the suspicious merchandise comes?

   J’ai décidé d’abandonner l’affaire dont je vous ai entretenu il y a quelques jours.

   I decided to abandon the matter of which we have been speaking for a few days.

   La maladie dont il est mort porte un nom imprononçable.

   The disease of which he died has an unpronounceable name.

   Les pays dont nous n’avons point de connaissance sont les destinations privilégiées des grands aventuriers.

   The countries of which we have little knowledge are the privileged destinations of great adventurers.

   Ces étoiles — dont le nom m’échappe — sont les plus brillantes de la voûte céleste.

   These stars, whose names escape me, are the brightest in the skies.

2. (sometimes) by which

   Le coup dont il fut frappé.

   The blow by which he was struck.

3. Denotes a part of a set, may be translated as "including" or such as in some situations.

   Il a eu dix enfants, dont neuf filles.

   He had ten children, nine of them girls.

Synonyms

• (of which): de qui, de quoi, duquel m, de laquelle f, desquels m pl, desquelles f pl

Derived terms

• dont acte
• dont appel
• dont auquel

References

Further reading

• “dont” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• tond

Middle English

Noun

dont

1. Alternative form of dint

Middle French

Alternative forms

• dant

Pronoun

dont

1. of whom; of which

Descendants

• French: dont

Occitan

Pronunciation

Preposition

dont

1. including, such as