don

Pronunciation: /doːn/

“don” is an Old English word. Its 8 meanings in English:

verb

to do
to make, cause
to put
to add
to take off, remove
to treat someone (+ dative) a certain way
to give (+dative)
Used to refer back to an earlier verb to avoid repetition.

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *dōn (“to do”). The exact development of past tense forms dyde, dydest, and dydon is unexplained, for such forms have -y- instead of expected -e-/-ǣ- (dede, dedest, dǣdon) from Proto-Germanic past stem *ded-/*dēd-. Cognates Cognate with Old Frisian dwā, Old Saxon dōn, Old Dutch duon, Old High German tuon. Non-Germanic cognates include Ancient Greek τίθημι (títhēmi), Latin…

More Old English words

domhus
domian
domleas
domsetl
don of
don on
dopened
dopenid

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