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Eastern Maninkakan
Alternative scripts
Noun
dè
- certainly
- Synonym: dɛ́
Italian
Pronunciation
Verb
dè
- (also poetic) Obsolete form of deve, third-person singular present indicative of dovere
Anagrams
Mandarin
Alternative forms
Romanization
dè (de4, Zhuyin ㄉㄜˋ)
- Hanyu Pinyin reading of 嘚
Romagnol
Pronunciation
Noun
dè m (invariable)
- day
1920, Olindo Guerrini, edited by Zanichelli, Sonetti romagnoli, published 1967:Donca aví da savé che un dé a Bulogna andè in butega da un barbir, zett zett, cun una cherta ch'a i' aveva scrett- And so you have to know that on day I went to a barber's shop, quietly, with a paper that I've written
Scottish Gaelic
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Clipping of ciod è (older caidhe, caide, goidé) from Old Irish cote (“what is the nature of?, of what kind is?”), synchronically analyzable as ciod + e, compare Irish caidé.
Pronoun
dè
- what
- Dè tha thu ag iarraidh? ― What do you want? (literally, “What are you at wanting?”)
- Chan eil cuimhn' aice dè thuirt e. ― She doesn't remember what he said.
Usage notes
Derived terms
Interjection
dè?
- huh? pardon? what?
- Used to form tag questions in informal speech.
- Thàinig iad feasgar, dè? ― They came in the afternoon, didn't they?
References
- ^ G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “cote”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- ^ E. G. Quin (1966) “Irish Cote”, in Ériu, volume 20, Royal Irish Academy, →JSTOR, pages 140–150
Etymology 2
Noun
dè m
- genitive singular of dia
Mutation
| Scottish Gaelic mutation
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| Radical
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Lenition
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| dè |
dhè
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| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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Vietnamese
Etymology
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 提/堤/隄 (“to guard against”, SV: đề).
Pronunciation
Verb
dè • (提, 𠽮, 咦, 移)
- to stint (on); to economise
- to take care over; to spare
- to foresee; to foreknow; to expect
Derived terms