D.O.W.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源 1

From 中期英語 douen, from 古期英語 dugan, from Proto-West Germanic *dugan, from Proto-Germanic *duganą.

動詞

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.

派生語

語源 2

From 中期英語 dowen, from Old French douer, from Latin dōtō.

動詞

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

1. To furnish with a dower; to endow.

派生語

語源 3

名詞

dow (plural dows)

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

語源 4

名詞

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.

語源 5

名詞

dow (plural dows)

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

語源 6

名詞

dow (countable and uncountable, plural dows)

1. Obsolete form of dough
   • 1648, Robert Herrick, “The Bride-Cake”, in Hesperides‎:

     This day my Julia thou must make
     For Mistresse Bride, the wedding Cake:
     Knead but the Dow, and it will be
     To paste of Almonds turn’d by thee:
     Or kisse it thou, but once, or twice,
     And for the Bride-Cake ther’l be Spice.

語源 7

名詞

dow (plural dows)

1. Initialism of day of the week

アナグラム

• OWD, wod, WOD, owd