dout
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See also: dö ut
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- Rhymes: -aʊt
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English doute (“doubt”). More at doubt.
Noun
[edit]dout
Etymology 2
[edit]Blend of do out, from Middle English don ut (“do out”). Compare don, doff, dup.
Verb
[edit]dout (third-person singular simple present douts, present participle douting, simple past and past participle douted)
- (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To put out; quench; extinguish; douse.
- 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 86, column 1:
- Mount them, and make inciſion in their Hides, / That their hot blood may ſpin in Engliſh eyes, / And doubt them with ſuperfluous courage : ha.
- 1893, J. Keighley Snowden, “The Angel Barmaid”, in Tales of the Yorkshire Worlds, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, page 136:
- The fire she lit in every breast was fanned rather than douted by the rumour presently puffed abroad that she was the recipient of letters addressed in a man’s handwriting.
Related terms
[edit]- douter, a cone-shaped device with a handle for extinguishing a candle and stopping the smoke.
Czech
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Old Czech dúti, from Proto-Slavic *duti. Doublet of dmout.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]dout impf
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation
Infinitive | dout, douti | Active adjective | dující |
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Verbal noun | dutí | Passive adjective | — |
Present forms | indicative | imperative | ||
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singular | plural | singular | plural | |
1st person | duji, duju (coll.) |
dujeme | — | dujme |
2nd person | duješ | dujete | duj | dujte |
3rd person | duje | dují, dujou (coll.) |
— | — |
The future tense: a combination of a future form of být infinitive dout. |
Participles | Past participles | Passive participles | ||
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singular | plural | singular | plural | |
masculine animate | dul | duli | — | — |
masculine inanimate | duly | — | ||
feminine | dula | — | ||
neuter | dulo | dula | — | — |
Transgressives | present | past |
---|---|---|
masculine singular | duje | — |
feminine neuter singular | dujíc | — |
plural | dujíce | — |
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “douti”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935-1957
- “douti”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
- “dout”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech)
Luxembourgish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old High German *dōd (attested in inflections), northern variant of tōt, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Cognate with German tot, Dutch dood, English dead, Icelandic dauður.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]dout (masculine douden, neuter dout, comparative méi dout, superlative am doutsten)
Declension
[edit]This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Related terms
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