different between don vs donnie

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /d?n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d?n/
• Rhymes: -?n
• Homophones: Don, dawn (with cot-caught merger)

Etymology 1

From Latin dominus (“lord, head of household”), akin to Spanish don and Italian don; from domus (“house”). Doublet of dom, domine, dominie, and dominus.

Noun

don (plural dons)

1. A university professor, particularly one at Oxford or Cambridge.
2. An employee of a university residence who lives among the student residents.
3. A mafia boss.
4. (MLE) Any man, bloke, dude.

Derived terms

• donnish
• donny (“bloke”)

Related terms

• donzel

Translations

Etymology 2

A contraction of Middle English do on (“put on”), from Old English d?n on. Compare also doff, dup, dout.

Verb

don (third-person singular simple present dons, present participle donning, simple past and past participle donned)

1. (transitive) To put on clothing; to dress (oneself) in an article of personal attire.

   Synonyms: clothe, dight, enrobe; see also Thesaurus:clothe

   Antonym: doff

Derived terms

• donner

Translations

See also

• put on
• wear

Anagrams

• NOD, ODN, nod

Albanian

Alternative forms

• do (Standard Albanian)

Etymology

Gheg variant of Standard Albanian do (“(it) wants, needs, loves, likes”) and do (“you want, need, love, like”).

Verb

don (first-person singular past tense dashta, participle dashtë) (Gheg forms)

1. you want, need

2. you like

3. you love
4. it wants, needs
5. it likes
6. it loves

Conjugation

• Standard Albanian conjugation:

Related terms

Azerbaijani

Etymology 1

From Proto-Turkic *t?n. Cognate with Chuvash ??? (tum).

Noun

don (definite accusative donu, plural donlar)

1. dress (worn by women)

   Synonym: paltar

2. gown (loose, flowing upper garment)
3. (figuratively) raiment, attire, garb, habiliments
4. appearance, look (of a person)

Declension

Derived terms

• donatmaq (“adorn”) (dialectal)
  • donanmaq
• donlu

Related terms

• donanma (“fleet; navy”)

Etymology 2

From Proto-Turkic *do? (“frozen; frost”). See Bashkir ??? (tuñ) for more cognates.

Adjective

don (comparative daha don, superlative ?n don)

1. frozen, congealed

Noun

don (definite accusative donu, plural donlar)

1. frost
2. ice-covered ground, black ice

Derived terms

• donmaq
  • dondurmaq
    • dondurma (“ice-cream”)

Further reading

• “don” in Obastan.com.

Bambara

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dõ?õ?]

Noun

don

1. day

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *du?n, from Proto-Celtic *dubnos, from Proto-Indo-European *d?ub?nós.

Adjective

don

1. deep

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish don, which is from Latin dominus (“lord”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?don/
• Rhymes: -on

Noun

don m anim

1. (in Italian environment) (Originally a title of honour of the Pope, later used for all priests and later for aristocrats)

2. (Spanish noble title) [19th c.]
3. (title of respect in front of Spanish given names)

4. don (maffia boss)

Declension

Related terms

• dona
• do?a

Further reading

• "don" in Ji?í Rejzek, ?eský etymologický slovník, Leda, 2015, ?ISBN, page 153.
• "don" in V?ra Petrá?ková, Ji?í Kraus et al. Akademický slovník cizích slov. Academia, 1995, ISBN 80-200-0497-1, page 175.
• don in P?íru?ní slovník jazyka ?eského, 1935–1957
• don in Slovník spisovného jazyka ?eského, 1960–1971, 1989

Anagrams

• dno

Dupaningan Agta

Noun

don

1. leaf of a plant

French

Etymology

From Old French don, from Latin d?num.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??/
• Homophones: dom, dons, dont

Noun

don m (plural dons)

1. gift, talent, knack
2. gift (present)
3. donation

Derived terms

• don de sang

Derived terms

• faire don

Further reading

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

Irish

Etymology 1

Alternative forms

• do’n (superseded)
• ’on (colloquial)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???n?/
• (Galway) IPA^(key): /??n?/

Contraction

don

1. Contraction of do an.

Usage notes

This contraction is obligatory, i.e. *do an never appears uncontracted. It triggers lenition of a following consonant other than d, s, or t.

Related terms

Etymology 2

From Old Irish don (“misfortune, evil”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d???n?/
• (Ulster) IPA^(key): /d???n?/

Noun

don

1. misfortune

Usage notes

Used only in a few stock maledictions such as Do dhon is do dhuais ort!, Don is duais ort!, Mo dhon is mo dhograinn ort! (all basically "bad luck to you!") and Don d’fhiafraí ort! (“Don’t be so inquisitive!”).

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "don" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “don” in English-Irish Dictionary, An Gúm, 1959, by Tomás de Bhaldraithe.
• Entries containing “don” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.

Italian

Etymology

From a shortening of an earlier donno, from dom'no (used by Dante), from Latin domnus < dominus.

Noun

don m (inv)

1. Father (a title given to priests)
2. A title of respect to a man.

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

From English don, particularly in the sense of a crime boss.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?dan/
• Hyphenation: don

Noun

don (plural: don dem, quantified: don)

1. don, leader, community leader, crime boss, head of a garrison (leader)

Derived terms

• don dada

Japanese

Romanization

don

1. R?maji transcription of ??
2. R?maji transcription of ??

Middle English

Alternative forms

• donne, doyn, do, doon

Etymology

From Old English d?n, from Proto-Germanic *d?n?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do?n/
• Rhymes: -o?n

Verb

don

1. To do, perform (an activity)
2. To complete, finish
3. To make, create
4. To put, place, position, raise
5. To remove, take away
6. To go or move (in a specified direction)
7. To behave (in a specified manner
8. (auxiliary) To cause (an action or state)
9. (auxiliary) Emphasises the verb that follows it
10. (auxiliary) Stands in for a verb in a dependent clause

Usage notes

As in modern English, several uses of this verb are highly idiomatic.

Conjugation

Derived terms

• doer

Descendants

• English: do
  • Northumbrian: dee
• Scots: dae

References

• “d??n, v.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-12.
• Wright, Joseph, and Elizabeth Mary Wright. An Elementary Middle English Grammar, p193. Oxford University Press, 1923.

Middle Low German

Etymology

From Old Saxon d?n

Verb

dôn

1. to do

Conjugation

Irregular: present 1sg dô, 2sg deist (dôst, d?st), 3sg deit (dôt, d?t), pl. dôn, dôt, d?t, preterit 1sg dede, 2sg dêdest, 3sg dede, pl. dêden, past participle gedân, dân

Nigerian Pidgin

Etymology

From English done.

Verb

don

1. have (perfect aspect auxiliary)

Northern Sami

Etymology 1

From Proto-Samic *tonë.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?ton/

Pronoun

don

1. you (singular)

Inflection

See also

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[4], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• (Kautokeino) IPA^(key): /?to?n/

Determiner

d?n

1. accusative/genitive singular of d?t

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin d?num.

Pronunciation

Noun

don m (plural dons)

1. gift (something given to another voluntarily)
2. gift (a talent or natural ability)
3. donation (a voluntary gift or contribution for a specific cause)

Related terms

• dar
• donar

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *d?n (“to do”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /do?n/

Verb

d?n

1. to do
   • c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English

   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 17:12

   • late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Genesis 41:55

   • c. 995, Ælfric, Extracts on Grammar in English

   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "Sermon on the Beginning of Creation"

   • late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Genesis 3:8

2. to make, cause
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Passion of St. Bartholomew the Apostle"

   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 3:3

   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 4:19

3. to put
   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Matthew 26:52

   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Mark 7:33

4. to treat someone (+ dative) a certain way
   • late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy

   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, Luke 16:19

Conjugation

Derived terms

Descendants

• Middle English: don, donne, doyn, do, doon
  • English: do
    • Northumbrian: dee
  • Scots: dae

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) , “don”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Old French

Alternative forms

• dun

Etymology

From Latin donum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dun/

Noun

don m (oblique plural dons, nominative singular dons, nominative plural don)

1. gift

Descendants

• French: don
• ? Middle English: done

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /don/

Etymology 1

Univerbation of di (“of/from”) +? in (“the sg”)

Article

don

1. of/from the sg

Etymology 2

Univerbation of do (“to/for”) +? in (“the sg”)

Article

don

1. to/for the sg

Etymology 3

Noun

don (gender unknown)

1. misfortune, evil

Descendants

• Irish: don

Mutation

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• doan, d?an, duon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *d?n.

Verb

d?n

1. to do

Conjugation

Descendants

• Middle Low German: dôn
  • Low German: deoen (Paderbornisch), dohn (Münsterländisch); doon

Old Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dõn]

Etymology 1

From Late Latin dom, from domnus (“master, sir”), from Latin dominus, from domus (“a house”).

Noun

don m (plural dones)

1. (honorific) sir, master; a title prefixed to male given names
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 1r.

Descendants

• Spanish: don
  • ? Catalan: don
  • ? Czech: don

Etymology 2

From Latin d?num (“a gift”), from d? (“I give”).

Noun

don m (plural dones)

1. gift, talent
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 65r.

Descendants

• Spanish: don

Etymology 3

Shortening of dont.

Adverb

don

1. Apocopic form of dont; where
   • c. 1200, Almerich, Fazienda de Ultramar, f. 56r.

Descendants

• Spanish: do

Scottish Gaelic

Alternative forms

• dhan

Etymology

do + an

Preposition

don

1. to the (singular)

   Chaidh i don bhùth. - She went to the shop.

2. for the (singular)

Usage notes

• Without the definite article and in the plural the form do is used.
• Lenites words beginning with b, c, f, g, m and p.

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?don/, [?d?õn]
• Rhymes: -on

Etymology 1

From Late Latin dom (“a courtesy title for monks and abbots”), from domnus (“master, sir”), from Classical Latin dominus, from domus (“a house”), from Proto-Indo-European *d?m (“a house”), from root Proto-Indo-European *dem- (“to build”).

Noun

don m (plural dones, feminine doña, feminine plural doñas)

1. (obsolete) sir, master, lord
2. a title of respect to a man, prefixed to first names

Derived terms

• don nadie
• poderoso caballero es don dinero

Related terms

• doña
• dueño

Descendants

• ? Catalan: don
• ? Czech: don

Etymology 2

From Latin d?num (“a gift”) (whence English donation), from d? (“to give”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh?- (“to give”).

Noun

don m (plural dones)

1. gift, present
2. gift, talent, knack

Usage notes

Like with the English word "knack", don can be used to describe a positive gift or talent, or a negative one like a bad habit or a neutral tendency to do something.

Derived terms

Related terms

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

From Dutch dom.

Adjective

don

1. stupid

Noun

don

1. stupidity

Swedish

Etymology

Originally "work done, something accomplished," from the root of dåd (“deed, feat”).

Noun

don n

1. a tool, a means

Declension

Related terms

• fordon
• skodon

References

Anagrams

• ond

Turkish

Etymology 1

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (don), from Proto-Turkic *t?n.

Noun

don

1. underpants

Etymology 2

From Ottoman Turkish ???? (doñ), from Proto-Turkic *tong, *do?.

Noun

don

1. frost

Verb

don

1. second-person singular imperative of donmak

Related terms

• donma
• donmak

Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• (Hà N?i) IPA^(key): [z?n??]
• (Hu?) IPA^(key): [j????]
• (H? Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [j????]

Noun

(classifier con) don

1. Atherurus macrourus, Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine

   Synonym: ?on

Yogad

Etymology

From Proto-Philippine *dahun, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *dahun.

Noun

don

1. leaf (of a plant)

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English don, from Old English d?n on.

Verb

don

1. To put on, as clothes, dress.

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

Zazaki

Noun

don ?

1. kind of bread

Zou

Verb

don

1. drink

References

• http://www.languageinindia.com/feb2013/zouphonologyfinal.pdf

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from Sranan Tongo doni.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?.ni/
• Hyphenation: don?nie
• Rhymes: -?ni

Noun

donnie m (plural donnies)

1. (Netherlands, slang) A 10-euro banknote.
2. (Netherlands, slang, dated) A 10-guilders banknote.