"dōn" meaning in Proto-West Germanic

See dōn in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Etymology: From Proto-Germanic *dōną. Etymology templates: {{etymon|gmw-pro|inh|gem-pro>*dōną>do|id=do}}, {{inh|gmw-pro|gem-pro|*dōną}} Proto-Germanic *dōną Head templates: {{head|gmw-pro|verb}} *dōn Forms: irregular [table-tags], dōn [infinitive], dōnijas [genitive, infinitive], dōnijē [dative, infinitive], dōniju [infinitive, instrumental], dōmi [first-person, present, singular], dedā [first-person, past, singular], dōsi [present, second-person, singular], dedēs [past, second-person, singular], dōþi [present, singular, third-person], dedē [past, singular, third-person], dōm [first-person, plural, present], dādum [first-person, past, plural], dōþ [plural, present, second-person], dādud [past, plural, second-person], dōnþi [plural, present, third-person], dādun [past, plural, third-person], dō [first-person, present, singular], dādī [first-person, past, singular], dōs [present, second-person, singular], dādī [past, second-person, singular], dō [present, singular, third-person], dādī [past, singular, third-person], dādīm [first-person, past, plural], dādīd [past, plural, second-person], dōn [plural, present, third-person], dādīn [past, plural, third-person], dō [present, singular], dōþ [plural, present], dōndī [participle, present], dān [participle, past]
  1. to do Tags: reconstruction
    Sense id: en-dōn-gmw-pro-verb-IXZV9I3e Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Proto-West Germanic entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 47 53 Disambiguation of Proto-West Germanic entries with incorrect language header: 47 53
  2. to put, to place Tags: reconstruction
    Sense id: en-dōn-gmw-pro-verb-yjaG~g~s Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Proto-West Germanic entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 47 53 Disambiguation of Proto-West Germanic entries with incorrect language header: 47 53
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  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ang",
            "2": "dōn"
          },
          "expansion": "Old English: dōn, doan — Anglian, doa, doæ, doe — Northumbrian\nMiddle English: don, donne, doyn, do, doon\nEnglish: do\nGeordie English: de, dee, div\nScots: dae, dee (Doric)\nYola: doone, deen",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old English: dōn, doan — Anglian, doa, doæ, doe — Northumbrian\nMiddle English: don, donne, doyn, do, doon\nEnglish: do\nGeordie English: de, dee, div\nScots: dae, dee (Doric)\nYola: doone, deen"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ofs",
            "2": "dwā"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Frisian: dwā, dwān, duān, duā, dūa\nNorth Frisian:\nFöhr-Amrum: du\nMooring: düünj\nSaterland Frisian: dwo\nWest Frisian: dwaan",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Frisian: dwā, dwān, duān, duā, dūa\nNorth Frisian:\nFöhr-Amrum: du\nMooring: düünj\nSaterland Frisian: dwo\nWest Frisian: dwaan"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "osx",
            "2": "dōn"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Saxon: dōn, doan, dūan, duon\nMiddle Low German: dôn\nLow German: deoen (Paderbornisch), dohn (Münsterländisch); doon",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Saxon: dōn, doan, dūan, duon\nMiddle Low German: dôn\nLow German: deoen (Paderbornisch), dohn (Münsterländisch); doon"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "odt",
            "2": "duon"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Dutch: duon\nMiddle Dutch: doen\nDutch: doen\nAfrikaans: doen\nBerbice Creole Dutch: dun\nJersey Dutch: dûn, dûne\nNegerhollands: doe, du, due\nSkepi Creole Dutch: doon\n→? Aukan: du\nLimburgish: doon",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Dutch: duon\nMiddle Dutch: doen\nDutch: doen\nAfrikaans: doen\nBerbice Creole Dutch: dun\nJersey Dutch: dûn, dûne\nNegerhollands: doe, du, due\nSkepi Creole Dutch: doon\n→? Aukan: du\nLimburgish: doon"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "goh",
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          },
          "expansion": "Old High German: tuon, duon, duan\nMiddle High German: tuon, tûn, tôn, duon, dûn, dôn, tœn, tain, tuogen, tuomen, thoenen\nAlemannic German: tue, due, tuä\nSwabian: dua, doa\nBavarian: doa\nCimbrian: tüan, tüunan (Sette Comuni)\nNorthern Bavarian: [d̥o͡u]\nViennese: tuan\nCentral Franconian: donn, don (northern Moselle Franconian, some Ripuarian dialects), dun (southern Moselle Franconian)\nHunsrik: dun\nKölsch: dunn\nLuxembourgish: doen\nGerman: tun\nRhine Franconian:\nFrankfurterisch: [d̥ũː]\nPennsylvania German: duh\nYiddish: טאָן (ton)",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old High German: tuon, duon, duan\nMiddle High German: tuon, tûn, tôn, duon, dûn, dôn, tœn, tain, tuogen, tuomen, thoenen\nAlemannic German: tue, due, tuä\nSwabian: dua, doa\nBavarian: doa\nCimbrian: tüan, tüunan (Sette Comuni)\nNorthern Bavarian: [d̥o͡u]\nViennese: tuan\nCentral Franconian: donn, don (northern Moselle Franconian, some Ripuarian dialects), dun (southern Moselle Franconian)\nHunsrik: dun\nKölsch: dunn\nLuxembourgish: doen\nGerman: tun\nRhine Franconian:\nFrankfurterisch: [d̥ũː]\nPennsylvania German: duh\nYiddish: טאָן (ton)"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gmw-pro",
        "2": "inh",
        "3": "gem-pro>*dōną>do",
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      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymon"
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      "args": {
        "1": "gmw-pro",
        "2": "gem-pro",
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      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *dōną",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Germanic *dōną.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "irregular",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōnijas",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōnijē",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōniju",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive",
        "instrumental"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōmi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dedā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōsi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dedēs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōþi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dedē",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōm",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dādum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōþ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dādud",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōnþi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dādun",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dādī",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dādī",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dādī",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dādīm",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dādīd",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dādīn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōþ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōndī",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dān",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gmw-pro",
        "2": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "*dōn",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-West Germanic",
  "lang_code": "gmw-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/dōn",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-West Germanic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to do"
      ],
      "id": "en-dōn-gmw-pro-verb-IXZV9I3e",
      "links": [
        [
          "do",
          "do"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "47 53",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-West Germanic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to put, to place"
      ],
      "id": "en-dōn-gmw-pro-verb-yjaG~g~s",
      "links": [
        [
          "put",
          "put"
        ],
        [
          "place",
          "place"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dōn"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Proto-West Germanic entries with incorrect language header",
    "Proto-West Germanic irregular verbs",
    "Proto-West Germanic lemmas",
    "Proto-West Germanic terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Proto-West Germanic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Proto-West Germanic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰeh₁-",
    "Proto-West Germanic terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Proto-West Germanic terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Proto-West Germanic verbs"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ang",
            "2": "dōn"
          },
          "expansion": "Old English: dōn, doan — Anglian, doa, doæ, doe — Northumbrian\nMiddle English: don, donne, doyn, do, doon\nEnglish: do\nGeordie English: de, dee, div\nScots: dae, dee (Doric)\nYola: doone, deen",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old English: dōn, doan — Anglian, doa, doæ, doe — Northumbrian\nMiddle English: don, donne, doyn, do, doon\nEnglish: do\nGeordie English: de, dee, div\nScots: dae, dee (Doric)\nYola: doone, deen"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "ofs",
            "2": "dwā"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Frisian: dwā, dwān, duān, duā, dūa\nNorth Frisian:\nFöhr-Amrum: du\nMooring: düünj\nSaterland Frisian: dwo\nWest Frisian: dwaan",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Frisian: dwā, dwān, duān, duā, dūa\nNorth Frisian:\nFöhr-Amrum: du\nMooring: düünj\nSaterland Frisian: dwo\nWest Frisian: dwaan"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "osx",
            "2": "dōn"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Saxon: dōn, doan, dūan, duon\nMiddle Low German: dôn\nLow German: deoen (Paderbornisch), dohn (Münsterländisch); doon",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Saxon: dōn, doan, dūan, duon\nMiddle Low German: dôn\nLow German: deoen (Paderbornisch), dohn (Münsterländisch); doon"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "odt",
            "2": "duon"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Dutch: duon\nMiddle Dutch: doen\nDutch: doen\nAfrikaans: doen\nBerbice Creole Dutch: dun\nJersey Dutch: dûn, dûne\nNegerhollands: doe, du, due\nSkepi Creole Dutch: doon\n→? Aukan: du\nLimburgish: doon",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Dutch: duon\nMiddle Dutch: doen\nDutch: doen\nAfrikaans: doen\nBerbice Creole Dutch: dun\nJersey Dutch: dûn, dûne\nNegerhollands: doe, du, due\nSkepi Creole Dutch: doon\n→? Aukan: du\nLimburgish: doon"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
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        {
          "args": {
            "1": "goh",
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          },
          "expansion": "Old High German: tuon, duon, duan\nMiddle High German: tuon, tûn, tôn, duon, dûn, dôn, tœn, tain, tuogen, tuomen, thoenen\nAlemannic German: tue, due, tuä\nSwabian: dua, doa\nBavarian: doa\nCimbrian: tüan, tüunan (Sette Comuni)\nNorthern Bavarian: [d̥o͡u]\nViennese: tuan\nCentral Franconian: donn, don (northern Moselle Franconian, some Ripuarian dialects), dun (southern Moselle Franconian)\nHunsrik: dun\nKölsch: dunn\nLuxembourgish: doen\nGerman: tun\nRhine Franconian:\nFrankfurterisch: [d̥ũː]\nPennsylvania German: duh\nYiddish: טאָן (ton)",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old High German: tuon, duon, duan\nMiddle High German: tuon, tûn, tôn, duon, dûn, dôn, tœn, tain, tuogen, tuomen, thoenen\nAlemannic German: tue, due, tuä\nSwabian: dua, doa\nBavarian: doa\nCimbrian: tüan, tüunan (Sette Comuni)\nNorthern Bavarian: [d̥o͡u]\nViennese: tuan\nCentral Franconian: donn, don (northern Moselle Franconian, some Ripuarian dialects), dun (southern Moselle Franconian)\nHunsrik: dun\nKölsch: dunn\nLuxembourgish: doen\nGerman: tun\nRhine Franconian:\nFrankfurterisch: [d̥ũː]\nPennsylvania German: duh\nYiddish: טאָן (ton)"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "gmw-pro",
        "2": "inh",
        "3": "gem-pro>*dōną>do",
        "id": "do"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymon"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gmw-pro",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*dōną"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *dōną",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Germanic *dōną.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "irregular",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōnijas",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōnijē",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōniju",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive",
        "instrumental"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōmi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dedā",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōsi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dedēs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōþi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dedē",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōm",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dādum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōþ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dādud",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōnþi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dādun",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dādī",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōs",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dādī",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dādī",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dādīm",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dādīd",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural",
        "second-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dādīn",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dō",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōþ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dōndī",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "dān",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gmw-pro",
        "2": "verb"
      },
      "expansion": "*dōn",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-West Germanic",
  "lang_code": "gmw-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/dōn",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to do"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "do",
          "do"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to put, to place"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "put",
          "put"
        ],
        [
          "place",
          "place"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "dōn"
}

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