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Donner

Donner

See also: donner

English

Proper noun

Donner

  1. A reindeer of Santa Claus.

Translations


German

Etymology

From Old High German donar (akin to Old Saxon thunar and Icelandic þruma), from Proto-Germanic *þunraz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tenh₂-. Compare Dutch donder, English thunder.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈdɔnɐ]

Noun

Donner m (genitive Donners, plural Donner)

  1. thunder

Declension

Derived terms

donner

donner

See also: Donner

English

Verb

donner (third-person singular simple present donners, present participle donnering, simple past and past participle donnered)

  1. (South Africa, slang) To beat up, clobber, thrash
    • 2005, Al Lovejoy, Acid Alex, Zebra Press (2005), ISBN 1770070931, page 167:
      They went into the pub and started a fight. One that was just bad enough for someone to call the boere. When the gattas arrived they got donnered for their trouble.

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French

Etymology

From Middle French donner, from Old French doner, from Latin dōnāre, present active infinitive of dōnō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɔ.ne/

Verb

donner

  1. to give, to transfer the possession/holding of something to someone else.
  2. to donate
  3. (intransitive) To come across
    • 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:
      Finalement, ayant perdu l’esprit sans ressource, il vint à donner dans la plus étrange pensée dont jamais fou se fût avisé dans le monde.
      Finally, having lost his mind completely, he happened to come across the strangest thought in the world of which a crazy person ever conceived.

Related terms

Conjugation


German

Verb

donner

  1. First-person singular present of donnern.
  2. Imperative singular of donnern.

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French doner, from Latin dōnō, dōnāre.

Verb

donner

  1. to give

Conjugation

  • Middle French conjugation varies from one text to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Descendants


Norman

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old French doner, from Latin dōnō, dōnāre (give a present; bestow, grant), from dōnum (gift, present).

Pronunciation

Verb

donner

  1. (Jersey) to give
  2. (Jersey, card games) to deal

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Scots

Verb

donner (third-person singular present donners, present participle donnerin, past donnert, past participle donnert)

  1. to stun, shock, stupefy
    • 1879, Mrs. Finlay Cameron, The Auld Hoose: Glimpses of Scottish Life, The Edinburgh Publishing Company (1879), page 69:
      "Doited or no doited, it's a fact thae hae queer daein's aboot thae toons. I haena seen mony o' them; but as for Glasgow, it quite donnered me; and Edinburgh wasna muckle better. []

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