different between doot vs doit

English

Verb

doot

1. (chiefly Scotland) doubt
2. (chiefly Scotland) think

Noun

doot (plural doots)

1. (chiefly Scotland) doubt

Anagrams

• OOTD, to-do, todo

Bau Bidayuh

Noun

doot

1. wild boar (Sus scrofa)

Synonyms

• pongan

German Low German

Etymology

From Middle Low German dôt, from Old Saxon d?d, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Compare Dutch dood, German tot, English dead, Danish død.

Adjective

doot (comparative döder, superlative döödst)

1. dead

Declension

Middle Dutch

Etymology 1

From Old Dutch d?t, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz.

Adjective

dôot

1. dead
2. lifeless
3. invalid, void

Inflection

Descendants

• Dutch: dood
  • Afrikaans: dood
• Limburgish: doead

Etymology 2

From Old Dutch d?th, from Proto-West Germanic *dauþu, from Proto-Germanic *dauþuz.

Noun

dôot m or f

1. death
2. death penalty

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: dood
  • Afrikaans: dood
• Limburgish: doead

Further reading

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

Plautdietsch

Etymology

From Middle Low German dôt, from Old Saxon d?d, from Proto-West Germanic *daud, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz.

Adjective

doot

1. dead, lifeless, deceased

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