Doe in Scrabble Dictionary

Valid words made from Doe

You can make 8 words from 'doe' in our Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

• 3 letters words from 'doe'
• 2 letters words from 'doe'

3 letters words from 'doe'

DOE 4

ODE 4

2 letters words from 'doe'

DE 3	DO 3
ED 3	OD 3
OE 2

Definitions and meaning of doe

doe

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /dəʊ/
• (US) enPR: dō, IPA^(key): /doʊ/
• Rhymes: -əʊ
• Homophones: doh, dough, do (in music)

Etymology 1

From Middle English do, from Old English dā (“female deer”), from Proto-Germanic *dajjǭ (“female deer, mother deer”), from Proto-Germanic *dajjaną (“to suckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁(y)- (“to suck (milk), to suckle”).

Cognate with Scots da, dae (“female deer”), Alemannic German tē (“doe”), Danish då (“deer, doe”), Sanskrit धेनु (dhenú, “cow, milk-cow”), Old English dēon (“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 yͤ first colonie in yͤ Northerne parts of Virginia, doe by these presents solemnly & mutualy in yͤ presence of God […]

Etymology 3

Adverb

doe (not comparable)

1. (African-American Vernacular, MLE) though

Anagrams

• -ode, EDO, EOD, Edo, OED, deo, ode

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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

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Limburgish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch du, from Old Dutch thū, from Proto-West Germanic *þū, from Proto-Germanic *þū.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [duː˨]

Pronoun

doe

1. thou, you (singular)

Inflection

• Dative is nowadays obsolete, use accusative instead.

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Lindu

Noun

doe

1. end; tip

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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

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Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *dowsants.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdo.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

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈdo.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

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Welsh

Etymology

See ddoe (“yesterday”)

Adverb

doe

1. yesterday

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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

Source: wiktionary.org

• the female of a deer, rabbit and some other animals.
  (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)