dove

Significado (Inglés)

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

• Verb
• Noun
• Noun
• Noun

Ler máis

Oposto a

hawk

Sinónimos

pigeon

bird

🐦

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

Traducións

paloma

Taube

colombe

🕊️

pigeon

piccione

duif

περιστέρι

columba

🕊️

colom

🕊️

pombo

colomba

🕊️

Zenaidura

güvercin

🕊️

tourterelle

Pronúnciase como (IPA)

/dʌv/

Etimoloxía (Inglés)

Herdado de Middle English: dove

Herdado de Old English: *dūfe

Relativo a escocés: doo

Relativo a Saterfriesisch: Duuwe

Relativo a frisón occidental: do

Relativo a neerlandés: duif

Relativo a afrikaans: duif

Relativo a sranan tongo: doifi

Relativo a alemán: Taube

Relativo a dinamarqués: due

Relativo a feroés: dúgva

Relativo a islandés: dúfa

Relativo a noruegués bokmål: due

Relativo a noruegués nynorsk: due

Relativo a sueco: duva

Relativo a yiddish: טויב

Relativo a Gothic: *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).