# dout
## English
### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -aʊt

### Etymology 1

From Middle English doute (“doubt”). More at doubt.

#### Noun

dout
* Obsolete spelling of doubt.
* (Can we verify this sense?) Misspelling of doubt.

### Etymology 2

Blend of do +‎ out, from Middle English don ut (“do out”). Compare don, doff, dup.

#### Verb

dout (third-person singular simple present douts, present participle douting, simple past and past participle douted)
* (transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To put out; quench; extinguish; douse.
** 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii], page 86, column 1:Mount them, and make inciſion in their Hides, / That their hot blood may ſpin in Engliſh eyes, / And doubt them with ſuperfluous courage : ha.
** 1893, J. Keighley Snowden, “The Angel Barmaid”, in Tales of the Yorkshire Worlds, London: Sampson Low, Marston & Company, page 136:The fire she lit in every breast was fanned rather than douted by the rumour presently puffed abroad that she was the recipient of letters addressed in a man’s handwriting.

##### Related terms

* douter, a cone-shaped device with a handle for extinguishing a candle and stopping the smoke.

## Czech
### Etymology

Inherited from Old Czech dúti, from Proto-Slavic *dǫti. Doublet of dmout.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈdou̯t]

### Verb

dout impf
* to blow, to gust
    Synonyms: vát, foukat

#### Conjugation

| Infinitive | dout, douti | Active adjective | dující |
| Verbal noun | dutí | Passive adjective | — |
| Present forms | indicative | indicative | imperative | imperative |
| | singular | plural | singular | plural |
| 1st person | duji, duju (coll.) | dujeme | — | dujme |
| 2nd person | duješ | dujete | duj | dujte |
| 3rd person | duje | dují, dujou (coll.) | — | — |
* The future tense: a combination of a future form of být + infinitive dout.
| Participles | Past participles | Past participles | Passive participles | Passive participles |
| | singular | plural | singular | plural |
| masculine animate | dul | duli | — | — |
| masculine inanimate | dul | duly | — | — |
| feminine | dula | duly | — | — |
| neuter | dulo | dula | — | — |
| Transgressives | present | past |
| masculine singular | duje | — |
| feminine + neuter singular | dujíc | — |
| plural | dujíce | — |

#### Related terms

* dmýchat
* doutnat
* doutnák
* doutník
* dým

### Further reading

* “douti”, in Příruční slovník jazyka českého (in Czech), 1935–1957
* “douti”, in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého (in Czech), 1960–1971, 1989
* “dout”, in Internetová jazyková příručka (in Czech), 2008–2025

## Luxembourgish
### Etymology

From Old High German *dōd (attested in inflections), northern variant of tōt, from Proto-Germanic *daudaz. Cognate with German tot, Dutch dood, English dead, Icelandic dauður.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /deu̯t/, [dəʊ̯t]
* Rhymes: -əʊt
* Homophone: Doud

### Adjective

dout (masculine douden, neuter dout, comparative méi dout, superlative am doutsten)
* dead

#### Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

#### Related terms

* Doud
* doutlaachen
* doutmaachen
* doutschloen
* douttrëppelen