doat
See also: Doat
English
Verb
doat (third-person singular simple present doats, present participle doating, simple past and past participle doated)
- Obsolete spelling of dote
- 1676, Aphra Behn, “The Town-Fop”, in The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. III:
- Ye all doat upon him, but he's not the Man you take him for.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], OCLC 928184292:
- I took any means to get access to you. O speak to me, Sophia! comfort my bleeding heart. Sure no one ever loved, ever doated like me.
- 1786, Robert Burns, “Song, Composed in Spring”, in Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns:
- --And maun I still on Menie doat, And bear the scorn that's in her e'e?
- 1825, William Hazlitt, “Mr. Coleridge”, in The Spirit of the Age […] , London: Printed for Henry Colburn, […], OCLC 813752051:
- We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and doat on past atchievements[sic].
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Anagrams
- DOTA, Dato, DotA, Dota, toad
Volapük
Etymology
Borrowed from French doigt (“finger”) (with modified pronunciation : fr: [dwa] > vo: [doˈat]).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [doˈat]
Noun
doat (nominative plural doats)
- finger
Declension
declension of doat
singular | plural | |
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nominative | doat | doats |
genitive | doata | doatas |
dative | doate | doates |
accusative | doati | doatis |
vocative 1 | o doat! | o doats! |
predicative 2 | doatu | doatus |
- 1 status as a case is disputed
- 2 in later, non-classical Volapük only
Derived terms
Derived terms
- doatahät (“thimble”)
- doatabomil (“phalanx (finger bone)”) (bom, (bomil)
- doatanuel (“fingernail”) (nuel, nuelik)
- doatik
- doatön
- (-ön)
See also
- döm (dömik)
- fut (futik, futayoin)
- nam (namik, namiko)
- riet (rietik, rietayoin)
- rikül (rikülik)
- tean (teanik, teananuel)