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Yes. The word doe is a Scrabble US word. The word doe is worth 4 points in Scrabble:

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3-letter words (2 found)

DOE,ODE,

2-letter words (5 found)

DE,DO,ED,OD,OE,

1-letter words (1 found)

E,

You can make 8 words from doe according to the Scrabble US and Canada dictionary.

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doe ode deo edo oed eod

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Definitions and meaning of doe

doe

Pronunciation

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

Etymology 1

From Middle English do, from Old English dā (“female deer”), from Proto-West Germanic *daijā, 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 a 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)
Derived terms
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

Etymology 3

Adverb

doe (not comparable)

  1. (African-American Vernacular, MLE) though

Anagrams

  • -ode, EDO, EOD, Edo, ODE, OED, deo, ode

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /du/
  • Hyphenation: doe
  • Rhymes: -u

Etymology 1

Verb

doe

  1. inflection of doen:
    1. first-person singular present indicative
    2. (dated or formal) singular present subjunctive
    3. imperative

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

Galician

Verb

doe

  1. inflection of doar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
  2. inflection of doer:
    1. third-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

Limburgish

Alternative forms

  • du (German based spelling)
  • dou (Eupen, Krefeld)
  • de (unstressed form)
  • -te (clitic)

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [duː˨]
  • Hyphenation: doe
  • Rhymes: -uː

Pronoun

doe

  1. thou, you (singular)

Declension

Lindu

Noun

doe

  1. end; tip

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 corresponding lemma form.

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

Old Irish

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *dowsants.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdo.e/

Noun

döe f (genitive doat, nominative plural doit)

  1. upper arm

Inflection

Descendants

  • Middle Irish: dóit
    • Irish: dóid

Mutation

References

Further reading

  • G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “doe”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Portuguese

Pronunciation

Verb

doe

  1. inflection of doar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

Welsh

Etymology

See ddoe (“yesterday”)

Adverb

doe

  1. yesterday

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

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