dow

• IPA^(key): /daʊ/

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• Rhymes: -aʊ

From Middle English douen, from Old English dugan, from Proto-West Germanic *dugan, from Proto-Germanic *duganą.

dow (third-person singular simple present dows, present participle dowing, simple past and past participle dowed or dought)

1. (Northern England, dialect, obsolete) To be worth.
2. (Northern England, dialect, obsolete) To thrive, prosper.

From Middle English dowen, from Old French douer, from Latin dōtō.

dow (third-person singular simple present dows, present participle dowing, simple past and past participle dowed)

2. To furnish with a dower; to endow.

dow (plural dows)

1. Alternative form of dhow (“sailing vessel”).

dow (plural dows)

1. Obsolete form of dove (“pigeon”).
   • c. 1503–1512, John Skelton, Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor, John Skelton: The Complete English Poems, 1983, →OCLC, page 63, lines 71–74:

     The fauconer then was prest,
     Came runnynge with a dow,
     And cryed, ‘Stow, stow, stow!’
     But she [his hawk] wold not bow.

dow (plural dows)

1. Alternative form of dah (“Burmese knife”).

• OWD, wod, WOD, owd

dow

1. (Pular, Maasina) above, over

   Lewru ndun no wenngaa dow to weeyo.

   The moon hangs very high up in the sky.

• Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.

From Middle Low German and Old Saxon dōf, from Proto-West Germanic *daub.

Cognate with English deaf. The second meaning stems from the old misconception that dumb or deaf people were mentally disabled. German doof is taken from this word.

dow

1. deaf
2. dumb (not clever)

From Old Irish dam (“ox, stag”).

dow m (genitive singular ?, plural dew)

1. ox
2. stag, hart

dow

1. alternative form of dogh

From Middle English douen. Cognate with obsolete English dow.

dow

1. (obsolete) to be of use, have value
2. (obsolete) to have the strength for, to be able to
3. (archaic) to thrive, to prosper

• “dow”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC.

From Dutch dauw.

dow

1. dew