FromMiddle Englishdawe, fromOld English*dāwe, fromProto-West Germanic*dāhwā. Cognate withGermanDahle,Dohle, dialectalTach.
daw (pluraldaws)
- Awestern jackdaw,Coloeus monedula, apasserine bird in thecrowfamily (Corvidae), more commonly calledjackdaw.
a.1687,Edmund Waller,To Mr Killigrew:The louddaw, his throat displaying, draws / The whole assembly of his fellowdaws.
c.1603–1604 (date written),William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, andEd[ward] Blount, published1623,→OCLC,[Act I,(please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)]:[…] But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve
Fordaws to peck at: I am not what I am.
- (obsolete) Anidiot, asimpleton;fool.
c.1503–1512,John Skelton,Ware the Hauke; republished in John Scattergood, editor,John Skelton: The Complete English Poems,1983,→OCLC, page62, lines20–23:Therefore to make complaynt
Of such mysadvysed
Parsons and dysgysed,
Thys boke we have devysed,[…]
No good preest to offend,
But suchedawes to amend,[…]
1610 (first performance),Ben[jamin] Jonson,The Alchemist, London: […] Thomas Snodham, forWalter Burre, and are to be sold by Iohn Stepneth, […], published1612,→OCLC,(please specify the Internet Archive page),(please specify the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):A kind of choughs, Or thievishdaws, sir, that have pick'd my purse Of eight score and ten pounds within these five weeks
2002, Joseph O'Connor,Star of the Sea, Vintage, published2003:‘Of course I do, you greatdaw.’ She kissed his beautiful mouth and moved his fringe out of his eyes.
FromMiddle Englishdawen, fromOld Englishdagian(“to dawn”), fromProto-West Germanic*dagēn, fromProto-Germanic*dagāną(“to become day, dawn”), from*dagaz(“day”), fromProto-Indo-European*dʰegʷʰ-(“to burn”). More atday,dawn.
daw (third-person singular simple presentdaws,present participledawing,simple past and past participledawed)
- (obsolete outside Scotland) Todawn.
- (obsolete) Towake (someone) up.
1485,Sir Thomas Malory, chapter10, inLe Morte Darthur, book XI:ANd whanne the Quene herd them saye soo / she felle to the erthe in a dede swoune / and thenne syr Bors took her vp / anddawed her / & whanne she was awaked she kneled afore the thre knyghtes / and helde vp bothe their handes and besoughte them to seke hym
And when the queen heard them say so she fell to the earth in a dead swoon. And then Sir Bors took her up, anddawed her; and when she was awaked she kneeled afore the three knights, and held up both their hands, and besought them to seek him- (pleaseadd an English translation of this quotation)
- (obsolete) To daunt; to terrify.
daw
- marks a sentence as interrogative
Igwa kadaw na kwarta?- Do you have money?
From asubstrate language (compareBaram Kayandaw < Proto-Kayanic*daw andEastern Penandaw < Proto-Kenyah*ədʰaw), ultimately fromProto-Malayo-Polynesian*qajaw.False cognate ofEnglishday.
daw
- day
- Synonym:medaw
- Adul, M. Asfandi (1985) “daw”, inStruktur Bahasa Bulungan[1], Jakarta: Pusat Pembinaan dan Pengembangan Bahasa
daw
- tothrow,cast
Mok uwana Yesu auguzahay la gay mukwà aŋa Galili kà, anəŋà Səmon uwana tazallala Piyer atà la deda aŋha Andəre, uwanatadàwdzarawa aŋatà à iyaw à abà; kà uwana atà azlaməna makas kilfi. (Mata 4:18)[1]- Now as he was walking beside the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and his brother Andrew, whowere castingnet into the sea (for they were fishermen). (Matthew 4:18)
- tosell
Kəla tatak uwanatadàwala la kasukwa, bokuba azlasləɓ kapaɗaw, kokuɗa maɓək gel à ahəŋ səla la ləv aŋkul la tsəh. (Korinitiya 10:25)[2]- Eat everything thatthey sell in the meat market, asking no questions for the sake of the conscience. (Corinthians 10:25)
Tadàwsla ala, la azlatuwaŋ, la azlahabakoku, aɓə̀z azlaməna maɓaɗla sili à gəl bay, tadzàh madzay la huma aŋa sili aŋatà, taɓàɗla. (Yuhana 2:14)[3]- They were selling oxen and sheep and doves, and the money changers seated. (John 2:14)
CompareBikol Centraldaa.
daw (Baybayin spellingᜇᜏ᜔)
- indicates something said by another person or group:so they say;according topeople;according to anaforementionedperson
- Synonyms:kuno,dikuno,umano,diumano
Marunongdaw siya.- They say he is wise.
- allegedly
Ikawraw ang nagpasimuno ng gulo?- Are youallegedly the one who started the mess?
- When the preceding word ends with a vowel,⟨w⟩, or⟨y⟩,raw is used instead, but the distinction isn't always made. Other words with this phenomenon includedito,diyan,doon, anddin.
- “daw”, inPambansang Diksiyonaryo | Diksiyonaryo.ph, Manila,2018
daw
- third-personsingularpresent/future ofdod
Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.
