duon

duon

1. accusative singular of duo

duon

1. genitive singular of duo

duon

1. woman
   • 1877, Antonio Ive, Canti popolari istriani: raccolti a Rovigno, volume 5, Ermanno Loescher, page 40:

     Che mai pioûn biela duon i’iê veisto al mondo,

     That I haven’t ever seen a more beautiful woman in the world,

duon

1. accusative/genitive singular of duot

From Proto-West Germanic *dōn, from Proto-Germanic *dōną. Cognates include Old High German tuon, Old English dōn and Old Frisian dwā.

• IPA^(key): /duo̯n/

duon

1. to do, to act

   Synonym: giduon

   • c. 1100 CE, Leiden Willeram:

     also deda unser drohtin

     So did our Lord.

   • c. 1100 CE, Rhinelandic Rhyming Bible:

     petrus ande paulus baden. that se so ne deden

     (Saint) Peter and (Saint) Paul asked if they wouldn't act like that.

2. to treat [+ accusative]
   • c. 900 CE, Die altmittel- und altniederfränkischen Psalmen und Glossen [The Old Middle and Old Low Franconian psalms and glosses]:

     cumit gehorit in tellon sal ic alla thia forhtit gode huo deda sela mina

     Come, listen, and I will tell all that fear God, how he treated my soul. (Psalms 66:16)

3. refers back to an earlier verb
   • c. 1100 CE, Leiden Willeram:

     hiz neuerid nu so niet, so hiz eer deda

     It doesn't happen now as it did before.

4. (auxiliary) to make, to let, forms causative verbs
   • c. 900 CE, Die altmittel- und altniederfränkischen Psalmen und Glossen [The Old Middle and Old Low Franconian psalms and glosses]:

     gehirmon duon uuir alla dag firlica godis fan erthon

     We make all God's holidays vanish of the earth.

5. to bring (to)
   • c. 900 CE, Die altmittel- und altniederfränkischen Psalmen und Glossen [The Old Middle and Old Low Franconian psalms and glosses]:

     huo gedana uurthun an te stornussi

     How were they brought to destruction?

6. to come (to one's end)
   • c. 1100 CE, Rhinelandic Rhyming Bible:

     in themo seluen lande dede oug johannes apostolus sinen ende / in epheso alse ik sagodo

     In the same land, John the Apostle also came to his end, / in Ephesus, as I said.

• anaduon (“to clothe”)
• antduon (“to open”)
• farduon (“to destroy”)
• giduon (“to do”)
• weladuon (“to do good”)

• Middle Dutch: doen
  • Dutch: doen
    • Afrikaans: doen
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: dun
    • Jersey Dutch: dûn, dûne
    • Negerhollands: doe, du, due
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: doon
    • →? Aukan: du
  • Limburgish: doon

• “duon”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

duon

1. definite singular of duo

duon pl

1. plural of du