dof

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English

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Etymology

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From Afrikaans dof. Doublet of daff, deaf, and dowf.

Adjective

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dof (comparative more dof, superlative most dof)

  1. (South Africa) Stupid; thick.

Anagrams

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Dutch

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Vowel shortening of doof (deaf), from Middle Dutch dôof, from Old Dutch *dōf, from Proto-West Germanic *daub, from Proto-Germanic *daubaz (stunned, deaf), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (to whisk, be obscured). Compare Swedish dov (matt, muted), English dowf.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /dɔf/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Hyphenation: dof
  • Rhymes: -ɔf

Adjective

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dof (comparative doffer, superlative dofst)

  1. (surface) dull, matte
  2. (sound) dull, muffled
  3. languid, apathetic
    Synonyms: loom, lui, flauw, mat

Declension

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Declension of dof
uninflected dof
inflected doffe
comparative doffer
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial dof doffer het dofst
het dofste
indefinite m./f. sing. doffe doffere dofste
n. sing. dof doffer dofste
plural doffe doffere dofste
definite doffe doffere dofste
partitive dofs doffers

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Papiamentu: dòf

Noun

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dof m (plural doffen, diminutive dofje n)

  1. a dull impact; a slam, a pound, a blow

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Welsh

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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From Proto-Indo-European *demh₂-. Cognate with English tame.

Adjective

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dof (feminine singular dof, plural dofion, equative dofed, comparative dofach, superlative dofaf)

  1. tame
    Antonym: gwyllt
  2. cultivated (of plants etc.)
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Etymology 2

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Inflected form of dod (to come).

Verb

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dof

  1. (literary) first-person singular present/future of dod
Alternative forms
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  • da (colloquial)
  • deuaf (literary)
  • do (colloquial)

Mutation

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
dof ddof nof unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.