doone

Preposition

doone

1. Pronunciation spelling of down.

Anagrams

• Odeon, odeon

Verb

doone (3rd person present deit, past deed, past participle jedone)

1. to do

Etymology

From Middle English don, from Old English dōn, from Proto-West Germanic *dōn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /duːn/
• Homophone: deoune

Verb

doone (second-person singular simple present doost, simple past did)

1. to do
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 14, page 90:

     Shoo ya aam zim to doone, as w' be doone nowe;

     She gave them some to do, as we are doing now;

2. doing
   • 1867, “A YOLA ZONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 14, page 90:

     Shoo ya aam zim to doone, as w' be doone nowe;

     She gave them some to do, as we are doing now;

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 90