dost

«dost» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: do — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

do

part of speech

verb, form of do with thou

meaning for a pupil

Do something, with "thou" as the subject. tree →

how it differs from today

No longer used; today we say "do" with "you."

examples

• Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee. (Torah DEU.24.11, JPS 1917) tree →
• "What dost thou want with me now?" (More English Fairy Tales) tree →
• When thou dost lend thy neighbour any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge. (Torah DEU.24.10, JPS 1917) tree →

primary record

do

tests

manual 5; corpora 183 (Torah 7, tales 176, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 20.7 (Torah alone 16.3); Wiktionary no archaic label

In the corpora

• When thou dost lend thy neighbour any manner of loan, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.
• Thou shalt stand without, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring forth the pledge without unto thee.
• After whom is the king of Israel come out? after whom dost thou pursue? after a dead dog, after a flea.
• With the merciful Thou dost show Thyself merciful, with the upright man Thou dost show Thyself upright,
• With the pure Thou dost show myself pure; and with the crooked Thou dost show Thyself subtle.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «dost» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.