dih

See also: đih, Dih, and DIH

Navajo

Etymology 1

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

dih

1. grouse

Etymology 2

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adverb

dih

1. more, better, a lot, more than anticipated or thought (with verbs of doing)

Alternative forms

• adih

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *þek, whence also Old English þec, Old Norse þik.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /dix/

Pronoun

dih

1. accusative singular of du

Descendants

• Middle High German: dich
  • Alemannic German: dich
  • Cimbrian: dich
  • German: dich
  • Hunsrik: dich
  • Luxembourgish: dech
  • Yiddish: דיך (dikh)

Pnar

Etymology

From Proto-Khasian *di:ʔ/c. Cognate with Khasi dih.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /diʔ/

Verb

dih

1. to drink

South Slavey

Etymology

From Proto-Athabaskan *dəxʸ. Cognates include Navajo dih and Dogrib dih.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tì(h)]
• Hyphenation: dih

Noun

dih (stem -dih-)

1. grouse
2. chicken

Inflection

Possessive inflection of dih (-dihé)

		singular	plural
1st person		sedihé	naxedihé
2nd person		nedihé
3rd person	1)	—	gidihé
	2)	medihé	godihé
4th person		yedihé
reflexive	sp.	ɂededihé	kededihé
	unsp.	dedihé
reciprocal		—	ɂełedihé
indefinite		ɂedihé
areal		godihé
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.

Derived terms

• dihcho

 

References

• Keren Rice (1989) A Grammar of Slave, Berlin, West Germany: Mouton de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 95