Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA pigeon, especially one smaller in size and white-colored; a bird (often arbitrarily called either a pigeon or a dove or both) of more than three hundred species of the family Columbidae. · A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict. · A term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle. · A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ-der.? Proto-Germanic *dūbaną? Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ Proto-West Germanic *dūbā Old English *dūfe Middle English douve English dove From Middle English douve, dove, duve, from Old English *dūfe (“dove, pigeon”), from Proto-West Germanic *dūbā, from Proto-Germanic *dūbǭ (“dove, pigeon”). Cognate with Scots doo, dow, Saterland Frisian Duuwe, West Frisian do, Dutch duif, Afrikaans duif, Sranan Tongo doifi, German Taube, German Low German Duuv, Dutch Low Saxon duve, doeve, Danish due, Faroese dúgva, Icelandic dúfa, Norwegian Bokmål due, Norwegian Nynorsk due, Swedish duva, Yiddish טויב (toyb), Gothic *𐌳𐌿𐌱𐍉 (*dubō).
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentiondouveenm
- Inherited-form mention*dūfeang
- Inherited-form mention*dūbāgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*dūbǭgem-pro
- Cognate mentiondoosco
- Cognate mentionDuuwestq
- Cognate mentiondofy
- Cognate mentionduifnl
- Cognate mentionduifaf
- Cognate mentiondoifisrn
- Cognate mentionTaubede
- Cognate mentiondueda
- Cognate mentiondúgvafo
- Cognate mentiondúfais
- Cognate mentionduenb
- Cognate mentionduenn
- Cognate mentionduvasv
- Cognate mentionטויבyi
- Cognate mention*𐌳𐌿𐌱𐍉got
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