A person who does or a thing that is done; archaic or dialectal term for 'doer' or 'action.'
Formed from 'do' plus 'and,' an archaic English participial formation. This structure was more common in Middle English but has largely been replaced by '-er' (doer) or '-ing' (doing) forms in modern English.
'Doand' is nearly extinct in modern English—a fossil word from when English was still experimenting with how to turn verbs into nouns and adjectives, before '-er' and '-ing' became standardized—making it a time capsule of language evolution!
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