I'm reading a story someone has written in Japanese and I came upon this
sentence:

> 体こそ違えど記憶と精神は彼女のものを引き継いでいる。

I think it means something like:

> The body is different, the memory and spirit are taking over things from
> her.

But what is the purpose of ど before the word for 'memory' in this sentence?
From jisho it tells me ど is a prefix meaning "precisely/exactly/totally/very
much", but I'm not sure how that changes the translation I did above (if that
is an accurate translation)
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Why is there a ど in 体こそ違えど記憶...?
You looked up the wrong 「ど」, the prefix 「ど」.

This 「ど」 is a **conjunctive particle** meaning " ** _although_** ". These two
are **_completely_** different words even though they look the exact same.

「が」 and 「けれども」 would be the synonyms of this 「ど」. 「ど」 sounds more literary and
dramatic than those two.

> "Although my body is different (from hers), I do take over her memory and
> spirit."

You mistranslated the 「彼女のもの」 part. It just means "hers". It refers to her
memory and spirit. 「もの」 does not mean "things" here.

"as for memory and spirit, I take over hers" is the literal translation.

One example of the other 「ど」 -- the prefix 「ど」:

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