dowf
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English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English [Term?], from Old Norse daufr (“deaf”) (whence also Icelandic daufur (“deaf, dull”)), from Proto-Germanic *daubaz (“deaf”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰūbʰ-, *dʰūp- (“to smoke”). Doublet of dof. Cognate with Old English dēaf (“deaf”). Compare dove ("to slumber"). More at deaf.
Adjective[edit]
dowf (comparative more dowf, superlative most dowf)