Doe

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Old English dā, of unknown origin.


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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.

doe (third-person singular simple present does, present participle doingor doth, simple past didor didde, past participle done)

doe (not comparable)


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doe (n.)

"female of the deer" (the male is a buck), from Old English da "a female deer," which is of unknown origin, perhaps a Celtic loan-word (compare Cornish da "fallow deer," Old Irish dam "ox," Welsh dafad "sheep"). The native word is hind (n.). Similar words in continental Germanic and Scandinavian (such as Old High German tamo) appear to be from or have been altered by influence of Latin damma "a deer." Doe-eyed, of girls, is from 1845.