Old English · noun

dor

Part of speech: noun, neuter
Declension: strong a-stem
IPA: /dor/
Syllables: dor (1 syllable)
Modern English: door gate

Meaning

a large door, a gate

Declension

Declension of dor
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	dor	doru
Accusative	dor	doru
Genitive	dores	dora
Dative	dore	dorum

All forms (6)

dor
doru
dores
dora
dore
dorum

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *dor. Cognate with Old Saxon dor, Old High German tor (German Tor (“gate”)), Gothic (daur). The Germanic word also existed with the stem *durz (see Old English duru, German Tür). Indo-European cognates include Greek θυρα (thyra), Latin foris, Lithuanian dùrys, Old Church Slavonic двьрь (dvĭrĭ) (Russian дверь (dverʹ)).

Descendants

door

Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dor · CC BY-SA 4.0 licence · Attribution