doten

See also: Doten

Catalan

Pronunciation

Verb

doten

  1. third-person plural present indicative of dotar

Middle English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Low German or Middle Dutch doten (“be silly”),[1] perhaps ultimately from Proto-Germanic *þeutaną (“to roar, howl”), similar to Dutch dutten.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdɔ̞ːtən/[2]

Verb

doten

  1. To be or become foolish, deranged or insane.
  2. To be or become senile; to suffer from the wear of age.
  3. (rare) To fall apart; to suffer from wear.
  4. (rare) To be unconscious or weak.

Conjugation

Conjugation of doten (weak in -ed)
infinitive (to) doten, dote
present tense past tense
1st-person singular dote doted
2nd-person singular dotest dotedest
3rd-person singular doteth doted
subjunctive singular dote
imperative singular —
plural1 doten, dote doteden, dotede
imperative plural doteth, dote —
participles dotynge, dotende doted, ydoted

1 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • English: dote
  • Scots: doit

References

  1. ^ “dōten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 July 2018.
  2. ^ Wright, Joseph (1892), “Chapter IV. The French Element — The Vowels.”, in A grammar of the dialect of Windhill, in the West Riding of Yorkshire (English Dialect Society Series C; 67)‎[1], London: for the English Dialect Society by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner, & Co., →OCLC, § 219, page 63.

Spanish

Verb

doten

  1. inflection of dotar:
    1. third-person plural present subjunctive
    2. third-person plural imperative
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