Wiktionary

deh

See also: děh and deȟ

Bouyei edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Chinese 箸 (MC drjoH, “chopstick”). Cognate with Zhuang dawh (“chopstick”).

Pronunciation edit

Noun edit

deh

  1. chopstick

Synonyms edit

Hupdë edit

Alternative forms edit

Noun edit

deh

  1. water

References edit

  • Patience Epps, A Grammar of Hup (2008)

Italian edit

FWOTD – 20 March 2016

Etymology edit

Probably from Latin dee, vocative form of deus (“god, deity”).

Pronunciation edit

Interjection edit

deh (poetic, literary)

  1. used to introduce a prayer or request or a wishful statement; ah!, oh!
    • 1321, Dante Alighieri, La divina commedia: Inferno, Le Monnier, published 1994, Canto X, page 321 vv. 91-93:
      Deh, or mi dì: quanto tesoro volle
      Nostro Segnore in prima da San Pietro
      ch'ei ponesse le chiavi in sua balia?
      I pray thee tell me now how great a treasure
      Our Lord demanded of Saint Peter first,
      before he put the keys into his keeping?

Northern Kurdish edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Iranian *dáca, from Proto-Indo-Iranian *dáća,[1] from Proto-Indo-European *déḱm̥. Compare Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬯𐬀 (dasa), Persian ده (dah), Ossetian дӕс (dæs), Pashto لس (ləs), Sanskrit दश (daśa), Urdu دس (das), also Armenian տասը (tasə), Ancient Greek δέκα (déka), Russian десять (desjatʹ), Latin decem, English ten.

Pronunciation edit

Numeral edit

Central Kurdish دە (de)

deh

  1. ten

References edit

  1. ^ Benjamin W. Fortson IV (2010) “Indo-Iranian I: Indic”, in Indo-European Language and Culture: An Introduction, 2nd edition, page 203

Romanian edit

Interjection edit

deh

  1. Obsolete form of de.

References edit

  • deh in Academia Română, Micul dicționar academic, ediția a II-a, Bucharest: Univers Enciclopedic, 2010. →ISBN

Scots edit

Etymology edit

Contraction of dinnae.

Pronunciation edit

Contraction edit

deh

  1. (South Scots, Edinburgh, Northern) 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 edit

  • 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)

South Slavey edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Athabaskan [Term?]. Cognates include Navajo tooh and Dogrib deh.

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [tɛ̀(h)]
  • Hyphenation: deh

Noun edit

deh

  1. river

Inflection edit

Possessive inflection of deh (-dehé)
singular plural
1st person sedehé naxedehé
2nd person nedehé
3rd person 1) — gidehé
2) medehé godehé
4th person yedehé
reflexive sp. ɂededehé kededehé
unsp. dedehé
reciprocal — ɂełedehé
indefinite ɂedehé
areal godehé
1) Used when the subject is a group of human beings and the object is singular.
2) Used when the previous condition does not apply.

References edit

  • Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 213

Yuhup edit

Noun edit

deh

  1. water

References edit

  • Jesús Mario Girón, Una gramática del wãńsöjöt (puinave) (2008): 'agua' (en hup y yuhup: deh, en nadëb: naʔɤy, en daw: nɤx, o en níkak cande)
  • HG
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