dè

day
- 1920, Olindo Guerrini, edited by Zanichelli, Sonetti romagnoli, published 1967:
  Donca aví da savé che un dé a Bulogna andè in butega da un barbir, zett zett, cun una cherta ch'a i' aveva scrett
  And so you have to know that on day I went to a barber's shop, quietly, with a paper that I've written

Scottish Gaelic edit

Alternative forms edit

dé (superseded)
gu dè (emphatic)

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /tʲeː/, /tʃeː/
(Lewis) IPA^(key): /t̪eː/

Etymology 1 edit

Clipping of ciod è (older caidhe, caide, goidé) from Old Irish cote (“what is the nature of?, of what kind is?”),^[1]^[2] synchronically analyzable as ciod + e, compare Irish caidé.

Pronoun edit

dè

what
Dè tha thu ag iarraidh? ― What do you want? (literally, “What are you at wanting?”)

Chan eil cuimhn' aice dè thuirt e. ― She doesn't remember what he said.

Usage notes edit

If followed by the future tense, the relative future tense is used.
Dè a bhios sibh a' dèanamh? ― What will you do?
An emphatic form gu dè is sometimes used.

Derived terms edit

Interjection edit

dè?

huh? pardon? what?
Used to form tag questions in informal speech.
Thàinig iad feasgar, dè? ― They came in the afternoon, didn't they?

References edit

^ Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cote”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
^ E. G. Quin (1966) “Irish Cote”, in Ériu, volume 20, Royal Irish Academy, →JSTOR, pages 140–150

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

dè m

genitive singular of dia

Mutation edit

Scottish Gaelic mutation
Radical	Lenition
dè	dhè
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Vietnamese edit

Etymology edit

Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 提/堤/隄 (“to guard against”, SV: đề).

Pronunciation edit

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [zɛ˨˩]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [jɛ˦˩]
(Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA^(key): [jɛ˨˩]

Verb edit

dè • (提, 𠽮, 咦, 移)

to stint (on); to economise
to take care over; to spare
to foresee; to foreknow; to expect

Derived terms edit

Derived terms

[1] Gregory Toner, Sharon Arbuthnot, Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Marie-Luise Theuerkauf, Dagmar Wodtko, editors (2019), “cote”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

[2] E. G. Quin (1966) “Irish Cote”, in Ériu, volume 20, Royal Irish Academy, →JSTOR, pages 140–150

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