From NorthernMiddle English at do ( “ to do ” ) ,infinitive ofdo ,don ( “ to do ” ) , seedo . Influenced by anOld Norse practice of marking the infinitive by using the prepositionat ,att (compareDanish at gå ( “ to go ” ) ). More atat ,do .
ado (uncountable )
trouble;troublesome business;fuss ,commotion Synonyms: see Thesaurus:commotion c. 1596–1598 (date written),William Shakespeare , “The Merchant of Venice ”, inMr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies [ … ] (First Folio ), London: [ … ] Isaac Iaggard , andEd[ ward] Blount , published1623 ,→OCLC ,[ Act I, scene i] :Antonio :In sooth, I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me; you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn; And such a wantwit sadness makes of me, That I have muchado to know myself.
1902 , William James,The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature [ … ] , New York, N.Y.; London:Longmans, Green, and Co. [ … ] ,→OCLC :Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us class it withoutado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. “I am no such thing,” it would say; “I am myself, myself alone.”
Ado is mostly used in set phrases, such aswithout further ado ormuch ado about nothing .
doing; trouble; difficulty; troublesome business; fuss; bustle; as, to make a great ado about trifles
Czech:povyk (cs) m ,zdržování n ,rotyka (cs) f Dutch:gedoe (nl) n Finnish:meteli (fi) ,mekkala (fi) ,älämölö (fi) French:cérémonies (fr) f pl ,manières (fr) f pl ,bruit (fr) m ,histoire (fr) f ,foin (fr) m German:Getue (de) n Hungarian:hűhó (hu) Maori:utiuti Plautdietsch:Kracheel m ,Puhu m Portuguese:confusão (pt) ,barulho (pt) Russian:затруднение (ru) n ( zatrudnenije ) Slovak:hurhaj m ,zdržiavanie n Turkish:gürültü (tr) ,patırtı (tr) ,telaş (tr) ,yaygara (tr)
Translations to be checked
IPA (key ) : /aˈdo/ [ʔʌˈdɔ] Hyphenation:a‧do adó f
( Northern dialects ) generation ( Northern dialects ) era Declension ofadó absolutive adó predicative adó subjective adó genitive adó
E. M. Parker, R. J. Hayward (1985 ) “ado”, inAn Afar-English-French dictionary (with Grammatical Notes in English) , University of London,→ISBN ado
expression ofannoyance Clipping ofadolescent .
ado m or f by sense (plural ados )
( colloquial ) teen ,teenager Cognate withSaxwe Gbe ado ,Adja edu .
àdó
wall ado
Rōmaji transcription ofあど ado
second-person singular aorist active ofdadāti ( “ to give ” ) ado
Alternative form ofadae ado (plural adoes or ado's )
Alternative form ofadae Ado. FromProto-Cushitic . Cognates includeBurji ada ,Hadiyya ado andKambaata ado .
IPA (key ) : /ˈado/ Hyphenation:a‧do ado f ( uncountable )
milk Kazuhiro Kawachi (2007 )A grammar of Sidaama (Sidamo), a Cushitic language of Ethiopia , page62 Gizaw Shimelis, editor (2007 ), “ado”, inSidaama-Amharic-English dictionary , Addis Ababa: Sidama Information and Culture department ado
( intransitive ) toarrive Rika Hayami-Allen (2001 )A descriptive study of the language of Ternate, the northern Moluccas, Indonesia , University of Pittsburgh Variant orthographies ALIV ado Brazilian standard ado New Tribes ado
Borrowed fromSpanish arroz .
ado
rice Cáceres, Natalia (2011 ) “ado”, inGrammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana [1] , Lyon