doat

See also: Doat

English

Verb

doat (third-person singular simple present doats, present participle doating, simple past and past participle doated)

  1. 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, volumes (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:
      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?
    • 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter XVIII, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 346:
      “Is not she looking well?” said he, turning his eyes towards Jane. “Better than she ever used to do?—You see how my father and Mrs. Weston doat upon her.”
    • 1825, William Hazlitt, “Mr. Coleridge”, in The Spirit of the Age […] , London: Printed for Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC:
      We are so far advanced in the Arts and Sciences, that we live in retrospect, and doat on past atchievements[sic].

Anagrams

Volapük

Etymology

Borrowed from French doigt (“finger”) (with modified pronunciation : fr: [dwa] > vo: [doˈat]).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [doˈat]

Noun

doat (nominative plural doats)

  1. finger

Declension
declension of doat
singular plural
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)
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