dove

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. (countable) A 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 300 species of the family Columbidae.
2. (countable) A person favouring conciliation and negotiation rather than conflict.
3. (countable) Term of endearment for one regarded as pure and gentle.
4. (countable, uncountable) A greyish, bluish, pinkish colour like that of the bird.
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, countable, ellipsis, slang) Ellipsis of love dove (“tablet of the drug ecstasy”).

Verb

1. (Canada, US, dialectal, form-of, past) simple past of dive
2. (form-of, nonstandard, participle, past) past participle of dive

dive

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Sinonieme

pigeon

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🐦

peacenik

spider

🕷️

chicken

🐔

culver

hen

🐔

mourning dove

rooster

🐓

squab

turtledove

turtle dove

ringdove

ring dove

Oxford-blue

child

🧒

dove 's

pigeon 's

dove-gray

turtle-dove

wood pigeon

wood-pigeon

dove-grey

broody hen

soft-liner

hawk

domestic pigeon

Jonah

little bird

Crested Pigeon

dived

Vertalings

paloma

Taube

colombe

🕊️

pigeon

piccione

duif

περιστέρι

columba

🕊️

colom

🕊️

pombo

colomba

🕊️

Zenaidura

güvercin

🕊️

tourterelle

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/dʌv/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: dove

Geërf van Old English: *dūfe

Verwante met Skots: doo

Verwante met Saterfriesisch: Duuwe

Verwante met Fries: do

Verwante met Nederlands: duif

Verwante met Afrikaans: duif

Verwante met Sranan Tongo: doifi

Verwante met Duits: Taube

Verwante met Deens: due

Verwante met Faroëes: dúgva

Verwante met Yslands: dúfa

Verwante met Boeknoors: due

Verwante met Nuwe Noors: due

Verwante met Sweeds: duva

Verwante met Jiddisj: טויב

Verwante met Goties: *𐌳𐌿𐌱𐍉

In summary

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
Inherited 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).