Dee

See also: dee, dée, dèe, dêe, de'e, and -dę́ę́ʼ

Contents

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Proper noun

Dee

1. A river in Scotland that flows about 145 km (90 mi) from the Cairngorm Mountains to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
2. A river in Wales and England that flows about 113 km (70 mi) from Snowdonia to the Irish Sea near Liverpool.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book IV, canto XI, stanza 39:

     And following Dee, which Britons long ygone / Did call divine, that doth by Chester tend; […]

3. A female given name, short for names beginning with D.
   • 1996, Maeve Binchy, This Year It Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury, Hachette UK (2008) →ISBN

     His daughter was called Deirdre, a good Irish name, but now she signed herself Dee, and her man friend was called Fox.

4. A surname​ of multiple origins.

Derived terms

• Deeside
• Miller of Dee

Translations

river in Scotland

• Armenian: Դի (Di)
• Irish: Dhé

• Russian: Ди (Di)
• Scots: Dee

river in Wales and England

• Welsh: Dyfrdwy f

See also

• Wikipedia article on Dee, linking to famous people with this surname and the name of various rivers

Anagrams

• Ede

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Manx

Proper noun

Dee f

1. A female given name, very common in the south of Mann in the 19th century.

Mutation

Manx mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
Dee	Ghee	Nee
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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Tagalog

Etymology

From Hokkien 李 (Lí)

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /di/

Proper noun

Dee

1. A Filipino-Chinese surname​, most notably borne by:
   • Enchong Dee, Filipino actor, model, and swimmer

Statistics

According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Dee is the 282^nd most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 26,809 individuals.