Adjective: dof
Indefinite Forms
| masc. & fem. | doffe |
| neuter | dof |
Comparison Forms
| Positive | doffe |
| Comparative | doffere |
| Superlative | dofste |
Sample Sentences
Adjectives inflected like dof
dof,
duf,
laf,
maf,
muf,
tof,
rof,
suf,
straf,
liflaf,
kortaf,
grif,
klef,
Etymology
Vowel shortening of doof (“deaf”), from Middle Dutch dôof, from Old Dutch *dōf, from Proto-West Germanic *daub, from Proto-Germanic *daubaz (“stunned, deaf”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“to whisk, be obscured”). Compare Swedish dov (“matt, muted”), English dowf. See: Swedish Adjectives '
dov', English Adjectives '
dowf'.
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