doon

See down.

• IPA^(key): /duːn/
• Rhymes: -uːn

doon (not comparable)

1. (Tyneside) Down.

doon

1. (Tyneside, 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. (Tyneside) 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, from Old Dutch duon, from Proto-Germanic *dōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-.

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

doon

1. to do

• euverdoon, óppernuuj doon
• euverdoonder

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

• IPA^(key): /doʊ̯n/

doon (third-person singular simple present deit, past tense dee, past participle daan, 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 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 (lyrics and music), “Annie Laurie”, in Scottish Songs‎:

/ 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

doon

1. want, hope, aspire

   shaqo orod doon ― to aspire to work

• roon
• do'n
• ro'n

• Hyphenation: do‧on
• IPA^(key): /doˈʔon/, [doˈʔon]
• IPA^(key): /ˈdon/, [ˈdon] (colloquial)

doón

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.