daid

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EnglishEdit

AdjectiveEdit

daid (not comparable)

1. Nonstandard spelling of dead.
   • 1910, Robert W. Chambers, Ailsa Paige^[1]:

     "I c-can't he'p myse'f," stammered Celia; "you say such frightful things to me—you tell me that they happen in my own house—in her own room—How can I be calm? How can I believe such things of—of Constance Berkley—of yo' daid mother——"

   • 1916, Peggy Edmund & Harold W. Williams, compilers, Toaster's Handbook^[2]:

     "I wish I wuz daid. 'Tain' nothin' but wuk, wuk from mawnin' tell night."

   • 1919, Henry Herbert Knibbs, The Ridin' Kid from Powder River^[3]:

     "Why, he's daid!" he exclaimed, poking the lion with the muzzle of his gun.

   • 1922, Paul Laurence Dunbar, The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar^[4]:

     Ah, Mistah 'Possum, we got you at las'—
      Need n't play daid, laying dah on de groun';
     Fros' an' de 'simmons has made you grow fas',—
      Won't he be fine when he's roasted up brown!

   • 1929, Carl Henry Grabo, The Cat in Grandfather's House^[5]:

     In de mawnin' w'en he go to milk de cow, sho'nuf dey wuz a hawg a-lyin' on its side, daid.

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IrishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowing from English dad.

PronunciationEdit

• IPA^(key): /ˈd̪ˠadʲ/

NounEdit

daid m (genitive singular daid, nominative plural daideanna)

1. (informal) dad

SynonymsEdit

• daidí
• deaide

MutationEdit

Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Eclipsis
daid	dhaid	ndaid
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

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WelshEdit

NounEdit

daid

1. soft mutation of taid