deh

Italian

Interjection

deh

1. ah!, oh!

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Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Iranian *daśa, from Proto-Indo-Iranian, from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥t. Compare Avestan dasa, Persian ده (dah), Ossetian дӕс (dæs), Pashto لس (ləs), Sanskrit दश (daśa), Urdu دس (das), also Armenian տասը (tasë), Greek δέκα (déka), Russian десять (desjat'), Latin decem, English ten.

Numeral

deh

1. ten

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Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA: /dɛː/

Contraction

deh

1. don't;

   A deh ken what ee mean! (example is in South Scots; "what" would be replaced by "whit" or "fit" and "ee" with "ye" in other Scots dialects)

Usage notes

• Not used interrogatively and is not used in the third-person singular (the third-person singular equivalent of that is doesnae, or disnae in the Borders)