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do

To work as a domestic servant.

From Middle English don, from Old English dōn, from Proto-Germanic *dōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-.
The past tense form is from Middle English didde, dude, from Old English dyde, *diede, from Proto-Germanic *dedǭ/*dedē, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰédʰeh₁ti, an athematic e-reduplicated verb of the same root *dʰeh₁-.
The use of do in interrogative, negative, and, formerly, affirmative sentences, unusual in Germanic languages, is thought to be calqued from Welsh.

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I've left my key in my office in Manchester, my family are at Bournemouth, and the old woman who does for me goes home at nine o'clock.

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Submitted on July 10, 2018

do	A syntactic marker
do	To perform; to execute.
do	To cause, make.
do	To suffice.
do	To be reasonable or acceptable.
do	To have.
do	To fare; to succeed or fail.
do	To have as one's job.
do	To perform the tasks or actions associated with
do	To cook.
do	To travel in, to tour, to make a circuit of.
do	To treat in a certain way.
do	To work for or on, by way of caring for, looking after, preparing, cleaning, keeping in order, etc.
do	To act or behave in a certain manner; to conduct oneself.
do	To spend in jail.
do	To impersonate or depict.
do	To kill.
do	To deal with for good and all; to finish up; to undo; to ruin; to do for.
do	To punish for a misdemeanor.
do	To have sex with.
do	To cheat or swindle.
do	To convert into a certain form; especially, to translate.
do	To finish.
do	Used to form the present progressive of verbs.
do	To cash or to advance money for, as a bill or note.
do	To make or provide.
do	To injure.
do	To take drugs.
do	to have a purpose or reason

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