Dee

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See also: Appendix:Variations of "dee"

English

 River Dee, Aberdeenshire on Wikipedia
 River Dee, Wales on Wikipedia
 River Dee, Cumbria on Wikipedia
 River Dee (Ireland) on Wikipedia
 Dee (name) on Wikipedia

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Dee

  1. A river in Aberdeenshire council area, 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.
  3. A river in Cumbria, England, which flows through Dentdale, and joins the River Rawthey near Sedbergh.
  4. A river in County Cavan and County Louth, Ireland.
  5. A unisex given name, short for names beginning with D.
    • 1996, Maeve Binchy, This Year It Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury, Hachette UK, published 2008, →ISBN:
      His daughter was called Deirdre, a good Irish name, but now she signed herself Dee, and her man friend was called Fox.
  6. A surname of multiple origins.

Derived terms

Translations

Statistics

  • According to the 2010 United States Census, Dee is the 5,535th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 6,275 individuals. Dee is most common among White (72.48%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (10.20%) individuals.

Noun

Dee (plural Dees)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of dee

Anagrams

Latin

Noun

Dee

  1. vocative singular of Deus

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.

Tagalog

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Hokkien 李 (Lí), via English Dee, with the initial ⟨L⟩ changed to ⟨D⟩ due to /l/~/d/ allophony when the proceeding vowel is either, , , or in Hokkien.[1][2]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Dee (Baybayin spelling ᜇᜒ)

  1. a Chinese Filipino surname from Hokkien, most notably borne by:

Statistics

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

See also

References

  1. ^ Douglas, Carstairs (1873) “D.”, in Chinese-English Dictionary of the Vernacular or Spoken Language of Amoy, [With 1923 Supplement after the Appendix by Thomas Barclay, Shanghai: Commercial Press, Ltd.] edition (overall work in Hokkien and English), London: Trübner & Co., page 99; New Edition (With Chinese Character Glosses) edition, London: Presbyterian Church of England, 1899, page 99
  2. ^ Van der Loon, Piet (1967) “The Manila Incunabula and Early Hokkien Studies, Part 2”, in Asia Major (New Series)‎, volume 13, page 113

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Pronunciation

Proper noun

Dee

  1. Dee
    • OBSERVATIONS BY THE EDITOR, line 26.
      “The principal of these are named Carrick-a-Shinna, Carrick-a-Dee, and Carrick-a-Foyle, and are respectively 556, 776, and 687 feet above the level of the sea.”

Derived terms

References

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 2
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