doft
See also: Doft
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch docht.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɔft/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: doft
- Rhymes: -ɔft
Noun
doft f (plural doften, diminutive doftje n)
Swedish
Etymology
From Old Norse dupt, itself related to the root of daufr.[1]
Pronunciation
Audio: (file)
Noun
doft c
- (pleasant) smell; scent, odor, fragrance
- 1990, Sven-Ingvars, David Alexandre Winter, “Sommar och sol [Summer and sun]”[1]:
- Sommar, sommar och sol. Havet och vinden, och doft av kaprifol. Sommar, sommar och sol. En himmel så blå som viol.
- Summer, summer and sun. The sea and the wind, and scent of honeysuckle. Summer, summer and sun. A sky as blue as violet [flower].
Declension
nominative | genitive | ||
---|---|---|---|
singular | indefinite | doft | dofts |
definite | doften | doftens | |
plural | indefinite | dofter | dofters |
definite | dofterna | dofternas |
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
References
- doft in Svensk ordbok (SO)
- doft in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
- doft in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “261-67”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 261-67
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Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɔft/, /daft/
Verb
doft
- simple past of doff
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 36