doon

See down.

• IPA^(key): /duːn/

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• Rhymes: -uːn

doon (not comparable)

1. (Geordie) Down.

doon

1. (Geordie, Scotland) Down.
   • 2023 March 22, Dr Joseph Brennan, “Grand buildings on the list... and lost: Greenock Princes Pier”, in RAIL, number 979, page 52:

     This "impressive" 1893 James Miller railway terminus was, according to Canmore, "designed in a grand style in order to cope with the large volume of holidaymakers arriving from Glasgow to travel 'doon the water' at the height of the summer season".

doon (not comparable)

1. (Geordie) On a lower level than before; down.

See dun.

doon (plural doons)

1. Alternative form of dun, an ancient or medieval fortification.

• Ondo, dono

• doen (some dialects, Maastrichtian)
• doeë (Southeast Limburgish, Voeren)
• doëne, doë (Eupen)
• duon (Krefeld)

From Middle Dutch doen

• IPA^(key): /doːn/
• Hyphenation: doon
• Rhymes: -oːn

doon

1. to do

• euverdoon, óppernuuj doon
• euverdoonder

From Middle Low German dôn. Compare Dutch doen, West Frisian dwaan, English do, German tun.

• IPA^(key): /doːn/, [doːn], (coastal) [doʊ̯n]

doon (third-person singular simple present deit or (Westphalian) dööt, past tense dee or dä, past participle daan or daon, auxiliary verb hebben)

1. to do
2. to put

   Do dat aver dor!

   Just put it in there!

3. (auxiliary) to cause to, to make; forms causative verbs
4. (auxiliary, preterite) often used instead of the preterit of weak verbs, with an infinitive.

   Ik dee em en Kado geven!

   I gave him a present!

5. (auxiliary, preterite) always used in a subordinate clause with wenn, sometimes also with dat.

   So worr dat düüster wenn de Sünn ünnergahn dee

   It became dark when the sun went down!

• IPA^(key): /duːn/

From Old Irish dúnaid, dúinid (“shuts, closes; blocks, obstructs; joins, clasps; closes, ends”).

• dooin

doon (past independent ghoon, future independent doonee, verbal noun dooney, past participle doont)

1. close, shut

From Old Irish dún, from Proto-Celtic *dūnom (“stronghold”).

doon m (genitive singular doon, plural doonyn)

1. fort, fastness

   Ta'n doon ard erskyn y valley. ― The fort commands the town.

2. stronghold, bastion

doon

1. done

From Old English dūne, aphetic form of adūne, from of dūne (“off the hill”).

doon (comparative mair doon, superlative maist doon)

1. down
   • 1852-1859, Lady John Scott, “Annie Laurie”, in Scottish Songs‎^[1]:

     / Maxwelton braes are bonnie, / Where early fa's the dew, / And its there that Annie Laurie, / Gie'd me her promise true / Gie'd me her promise true, / Which ne'er forgot shall be, / And for bonnie Annie Laurie / I'd lay me doon and dee.

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doon

1. down

• adoon
• doon the stair

From earlier doonni, ultimately from Tamil தோணி (tōṇi).

döön f (plural doonyo m)

1. dhoni (traditional sailing vessel)

Unknown.

doon

1. (transitive) to want, hope, aspire

• do'n, don, dun
• roon, ruon
• ro'n, ron, run

The latter half of the word is possibly related to iyon or yaon. See also niyon / noon, ganoon / gayon, dito, diyan, niyan, nito, and other Tagalog demonstrative pronouns. Meanwhile, the former half is possibly related to Malay di and Indonesian di as a likely cognate.

• (Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /doˈʔon/ [d̪oˈʔon̪], (colloquial) /ˈdon/ [ˈd̪on̪]
  • Rhymes: -on
  • Syllabification: do‧on, doon
• (dialectal, Batangas, alternative) IPA^(key): /ˈdoʔon/ [ˈd̪oː.ʔon̪]
  • Rhymes: -oʔon
  • Syllabification: do‧on

doón (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜓᜂᜈ᜔)

1. yonder; there (far from both the speaker and the person addressed)

• When the preceding word ends with a vowel, ⟨w⟩, or ⟨y⟩, roon is used instead, but the distinction isn't always made. Other words with this phenomenon include dito, diyan, daw, and din.

• nood