doro

doro

1. man

• Bill Palmer, editor (2018), The Languages and Linguistics of the New Guinea Area, Berlin: de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 517

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɔ.ro/
• Rhymes: -ɔro
• Hyphenation: dò‧ro

doro

1. first-person singular present indicative of dorare

• odor, ordo, rodo, rodo-, rodò

doro

1. Rōmaji transcription of どろ

doro

1. nonstandard spelling of dara, romanization of ꦢꦫ

From Proto-Tungusic [Term?]. Cognate with Manchu ᡩᠣᡵᠣᠨ (doron).

doro (Jurchen script: , Image: )

1. seal, stamp

• Manchu: ᡩᠣᡵᠣᠨ (doron)

doro

1. first-person singular present indicative of dorar

• IPA^(key): /ˈdoɾo/, [ˈdʊ̞ɾʊ̞], [ˈdɔ̝ɾɔ̝]

From English door or Dutch deur,^[1] both from Proto-Germanic *durz.

doro

1. door
   • 2008, “Yu ben sabi a sani disi?”, in Jehovah's Witnesses‎^[2]:

     Tra sani di temreman ben e meki, na sani soleki tafra, sturu, bangi, nanga kisi pe sma ben poti sani na ini, èn sosrefi sani soleki doro, fensre, udu sroto, nanga postu fu poti na a plafon.

     Other things that the carpenter used to make were things such as tables, chairs, benches, and boxes where people put things into, as well as such items as doors, windows, wooden locks, and beams to put on the ceiling.

2. (locative) the outside
   • c. 1950, Sophie Redmond, “Datra Papa [A doctor's father]”, in Thea Doelwijt, editor, Kri, kra! Proza van Suriname [Kri, kra! Prose from Suriname]‎^[3], Paramaribo: Bureau Volkslectuur, published 1972, page 115:

     Alma: No wind isrefi op misi. Efi na vent abi so wan dikdoender, misrefi e kon jep joe smijt en na doro, nanga ala mi no lobi boemoei ini man en vrouw zaak.
     Nana: Sortoe man en vrouw zaak, na omeni jari na smeerlap gowe libi mi.

     Alma: Don't get all worked up, madam. In case the guy starts throwing his weight about, I myself will come to help you throw him out, with all my dislike of meddling in husband and wife issues.
     Nana: What kind of husband and wife issues? It's been so many years since the bastard left me.

From Dutch door (“through”). The added verbal aspect possibly results from the relexification of words in Gbe languages that have both a spatial and a verbal aspect, compare Ewe ɖé (“towards, to; to reach, to arrive”) and Fon dò (“towards, to; to reach, to arrive”).^[2]

doro

1. through

doro

1. continually, on and on, again and again

doro

1. to arrive
   • c. 1885, Johannes King, “Skrekiboekoe [Book of horrors]”, in Jan Voorhoeve, Ursy M. Lichtveld, editors, Suriname: Spiegel der vaderlandse kooplieden‎^[4], Den Haag: Martinus Nijhoff, published 1980, →ISBN, pages 108, 110:

     En ala dem ouloetem gran avoo vo wi ben de Afrikan ningre na ningre kondre. Na janda dem ouroetem bakra go bai dem avoo vo wi potti na ini sipi tjari koti habra da bigi soutoe watra, en dem tjari dem kom doro dia na foto Paramaribo.

     [Èn ala den owruten granawo fu wi ben de Afrikan nengre na nengrekondre. Na yanda den owruten bakra go bai den awo fu wi poti na ini sipi tyari koti abra a bigi sowtu watra èn den tyari den kon doro dya na foto Paramaribo]

     And all our forefathers of the olden days were African negroes from negro-country. It was over there that the whites of old went and bought our forefathers and put them in ships to take them across the big salt water, and brought them [arriving] here to the city of Paramaribo.

   • c. 1950, Albert Helman, Kot'singi [Tale-interrupting song]‎^[5], quoted in Adyosi / Afscheid, Stichting Instituut ter Bevordering van de Surinamistiek, published 1994, page 62:

     Na disi wawan de un trutru Manspasi: / firgit' fosten kodya, bigin opo pasi / fu meki mama Sranan waka go doro / pe toekomst de wakt' un, son opo na syoro, / wan dei di Sranan sa kon breiti, kon krin, / te nowan sa prefuru fu kosi un skin.

     This alone is our true Emancipation: / forget the cudgels of old, begin to open up roads / to allow Mother Suriname to march forward / to where the future awaits us, the sun rises at the shore, / a day that Suriname will rejoice, will be purified / when no one will dare to curse our skin colour.

   • 1962, Johanna Schouten-Elsenhout, “winti [Wind]”, in soela‎^[6], Paramaribo: Bureau Volkslectuur, page 13:

     A swit sewinti / d'e wai a branspen / te doro ini / sranan liba / e mek mi jeje djonko

     [A switi sewinti / d'e wai a Branspen / te doro ini / Srananliba / e meki mi yeye dyonko]

     The pleasant ocean breeze / blowing at Braamspunt / [arriving] up onto / the Suriname river / makes my soul drowse

2. to come, to dawn (of time)
   • 1968, Albert Helman, “Gi den baka [Hit them back]”, in Adyosi / Afscheid‎^[7], Nijmegen: Instituut ter Bevordering van de Surinamistiek, published 1994, page 88:

     Yu sab' koskos' n' e broko soro, / mi no de frede gongosa, / mi sabi tak' te dreiten doro, / dan ala tokotoko psa.

     You know insults don't open up wounds / I am not afraid of gossip / I know that when the dry season comes / all the mud will be gone.

   • 2014, Powl Ameerali, “Kresneti Firi”, in Kresneti Firi:

     Now Kresneti doro / tiri neti kon / famiri sdon makandra / lontu a 'kresnetibon

     Christmas Eve has arrived now / the silent night has come / the family sits together / around the Christmas tree

3. to find out, to arrive at a conclusion
4. to sieve

• Aukan: doo
• Saramaccan: dɔ́ɔ

• turu (Mati, Pummala)

From Proto-Finnic *tërho. Cognates include Estonian tõru, Finnish terho.

• (Luutsa, Liivčülä) IPA^(key): /ˈdoro/, [ˈdoro]
• Rhymes: -oro
• Hyphenation: do‧ro

doro

1. acorn

• Hallap, V.; Adler, E.; Grünberg, S.; Leppik, M. (2012), “doro”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language]‎^[8], 2nd edition, Tallinn