dee
English edit
Alternative forms edit
- de (Northumbria)
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Variant of do.
Verb edit
dee (third-person singular simple present diz, present participle deein, simple past and past participle dyun)
- (Northumbria) To do.
- What are ye deein man!
References edit
- Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
- Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[2]
- A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
dee (plural dees)
- The name of the Latin-script letter D.
- 2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:
- I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.
- 2016, CCEB, Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), pages 3–5:
- IED [is spoken] as "eye-ee-dee" instead of "I SPELL India Echo Delta Romeo".
- Something shaped like the letter D, such as a dee lock.
- the pommel is furnished with dees.
- (colloquial) Police detective.
- the dees are about.
Derived terms edit
Translations edit
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See also edit
- (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed
See also edit
Anagrams edit
Aiwoo edit
Adverb edit
dee
- (interrogative) when
References edit
- Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271-283.
Bambara edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dee
References edit
- 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.
Chairel edit
Noun edit
dee
References edit
- W. McCulloch, Account of the Valley of Munnipore and of the Hill tribes with a comparative vocabulary of the Munnipore and other languages (1859, Calcutta: Bengal Printing Company)
Chinese edit
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From 弟?”)
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dee
- (Cantonese, often in compounds) brother
- 華dee/华dee [Cantonese] ― waa4 di4-2 [Jyutping] ― a nickname, Brother Wah
- (Cantonese, poker, especially in big two) the largest of the poker cards, i.e. 2 (Classifier: 隻/只 c)
- (Cantonese, in compounds) big two
Derived terms edit
Dutch Low Saxon edit
Etymology edit
Pronoun edit
dee
East Central German edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Adverb edit
dee
- (Erzgebirgisch) (in a question, modal particle) then, ever, but, now (used for emphasis or to express interest, surprise or doubt, or in rhetorical questions)
References edit
- 2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch[4], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 31:
- https://www.erzgebirgisch.de/d.dee_1.wort
Estonian edit
Noun edit
dee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin-script letter D.
Finnish edit
Etymology edit
From Latin dē (“name of the letter D”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dee
- The name of the Latin-script letter D.
Declension edit
Inflection of dee (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation) | ||||
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nominative | dee | deet | ||
genitive | deen | deiden deitten | ||
partitive | deetä | deitä | ||
illative | deehen | deihin | ||
singular | plural | |||
nominative | dee | deet | ||
accusative | nom. | dee | deet | |
gen. | deen | |||
genitive | deen | deiden deitten | ||
partitive | deetä | deitä | ||
inessive | deessä | deissä | ||
elative | deestä | deistä | ||
illative | deehen | deihin | ||
adessive | deellä | deillä | ||
ablative | deeltä | deiltä | ||
allative | deelle | deille | ||
essive | deenä | deinä | ||
translative | deeksi | deiksi | ||
abessive | deettä | deittä | ||
instructive | — | dein | ||
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
Gokana edit
Noun edit
dee
References edit
- R. Blench, Comparative Ogonic
Italian edit
Etymology 1 edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dee f
Etymology 2 edit
Alternative forms edit
- debbe (archaic)
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
dee
- (archaic, poetic or popular Tuscan) Alternative form of deve, third-person singular present indicative of dovere
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 dee in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
- ^ dovere in Bruno Migliorini et al., Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia, Rai Eri, 2007
Latin edit
Noun edit
dee
Lombard edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dee m (feminine deja, masculine plural dee, feminine plural deje) (New Lombard Orthography)
Low German edit
Verb edit
dee
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Old French dé, from Latin datum. Cognate with French dé.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dee (plural dees)
- A die or dice (cube used in games and gambling)
- A game which utilises or employs dice.
- (rare) A piece or cube of diced food.
- (rare) Something of little value.
Descendants edit
References edit
- “dẹ̄, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-17.
Scots edit
Etymology 1 edit
Middle English, from Old English dīġan (“to die”), from Proto-West Germanic *dauwjan (“to die”).
Compare English die, Danish dø, Norwegian Nynorsk døy, Norwegian Bokmål dø, Icelandic deyja, Swedish dö, Faroese doyggja.
Verb edit
dee (third-person singular simple present dees, present participle deein, simple past dee'd, past participle dee'd)
- to die
- 1852-1859, Lady John Scott (lyrics and music), “Annie Laurie”, in Scottish Songs[5]:
- Maxwelton braes are bonnie, / Where early fa's the dew, / And its there that Annie Laurie, / Gie'd me her promise true / Gie'd me her promise true, / Which ne'er forgot shall be, / And for bonnie Annie Laurie / I'd lay me doon and dee.
- Maxwelton hills are pretty, / Where early falls the dew, / And it's there that Annie Laurie, / Gave me her promise true / Gave me her promise true, / Which never forgot shall be, / And for pretty Annie Laurie / I'd lay myself down and die.
Etymology 2 edit
Verb edit
dee (third-person singular simple present dees, present participle deein, simple past dee'd, past participle dee'd)
- Doric form of dae (“to do”)
- Fit ye deein?
- What are you doing?
- 1875, William Alexander, Sketches of Life Among My Ain Folk, page 51:
- "A twa-horse wark, maybe? or dee ye make it oot wi' ae beast an' an owse?"
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
Teop edit
Verb edit
dee
- to carry
References edit
- Ulrike Mosel, The Teop sketch grammar
Võro edit
Noun edit
dee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])
- The name of the Latin-script letter D.
Inflection edit
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
West Makian edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
dee
- (intransitive) to arrive
- dee pe ― to arrive at
- (intransitive) to reach
- (intransitive) to be enough, sufficient
- idee yo ― it is not enough (literally, “it does not reach”)
Conjugation edit
Conjugation of dee (action verb) | ||||
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singular | plural | |||
inclusive | exclusive | |||
1st person | tedee | medee | adee | |
2nd person | nedee | fedee | ||
3rd person | inanimate | idee | dedee | |
animate | ||||
imperative | nedee, dee | fedee, dee |
References edit
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours[6], Pacific linguistics
Ye'kwana edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Cariban *jôje (“tree, wood”).
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
dee (Cunucunuma River dialect)
References edit
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “iye”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 24, 170, 221, 279, 286, 343, 361, 370, 415
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “de:”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007), “dē”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series[7], Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
Yola edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English deyen, from Old English dīeġan, from Old Norse deyja, from Proto-West Germanic *dauwjan.
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
dee (simple past deeth)
- to die
Related terms edit
References edit
- Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 33