different between dout vs doit

English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -a?t

Etymology 1

From Middle English doute (“doubt”). More at doubt.

Noun

dout

1. Obsolete spelling of doubt

Etymology 2

Blend of do +? out, from Middle English don ut (“do out”). Compare don, doff, dup.

Verb

dout (third-person singular simple present douts, present participle douting, simple past and past participle douted)

1. (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To put out; quench; extinguish; douse.

Related terms

• douter, a cone-shaped device with a handle for extinguishing a candle and stopping the smoke.

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German t?t, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Cognate with German tot, Dutch dood, English dead, Icelandic dauður.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deu?t/, [d???t]
• Rhymes: -??t
• Homophone: Doud

Adjective

dout (masculine douden, neuter dout, comparative méi dout, superlative am doutsten)

1. dead

Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Related terms

• Doud
• doutlaachen
• doutmaachen
• doutschloen
• douttrëppelen

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