dau

• dau.

dau

1. (genealogy) Abbreviation of daughter. (often with implied 'of')

   Jane, dau John

• dau miu

• ADU, Uda, AUD, du'a', aud, Dua, Au.D., dua, UDA, Adu, aud., Aud

dau

1. leaf

• George W. Grace, Notes on the phonological history of the Austronesian languages of the Sarmi Coast, in Oceanic Linguistics (1971, 10:11-37)

From Latin dō. Compare Daco-Romanian da, dau.

dau first-singular present indicative (third-person singular present indicative da, past participle datã)

1. to give

Feminine form of doi. From Latin duae, nominative feminine of duo.

• dao, dauã, doauã

dau f (masculine doi)

1. two

dau

1. leaf

• George W. Grace, Notes on the phonological history of the Austronesian languages of the Sarmi Coast, in Oceanic Linguistics (1971, 10:11-37)

From a Vulgar Latin *dadu, of uncertain origin; perhaps of Arabic origin, cf. أَعْدَاد (ʔaʕdād), or alternatively from Latin datum, from datus (“given”), the past participle of dare (“to give”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to lay out, to spread out”). Compare French dé, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese dado.

• IPA^(key): (Central, Balearic, Valencia)
• Rhymes: -aw

dau m (plural daus)

1. die (polyhedron with symbols on each side)
2. (castells) vent (position in the pinya)

• IPA^(key): /dàu/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key):

dàu

1. (of a hue) deep

Compare Tagalog dao.

• IPA^(key): /dəˈu/
• Hyphenation: da‧u

dau

1. dao (Dracontomelon dao)

dau

1. year

   dau kalangngana ― last year

   dau ta aro ― next year

• Rina, A. Dj., Kabba, John Lado B. (2011) “dau”, in Kamus Bahasa Lamboya, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat [Dictionary of Lamboya Language, West Sumba Regency], Waikabubak: Dinas Kebudayaan dan Pariwisata, Kabupaten Sumba Bakat, page 14

Cognate with Lashi ladu and Burmese တူ (tu, “hammer”).

dau

1. hammer

• Dr. Ola Hanson, A Dictionary of the Kachin Language (1906).

From Old Norse dauðr.

dau (masculine and feminine dau, neuter daut, definite singular and plural daue)

1. (dialectal) dead

• daud, død

• “dau” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “dau” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

• dua

• dal, del, deu

dau

1. Contraction of de + lo

• IPA^(key): /ˈdaw/

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• Rhymes: -aw
• Hyphenation: dau

dau

1. inflection of da:
   1. first-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. third-person plural present indicative

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dau class V (plural madau class VI)

1. dhow (traditional sailing vessel)

• Martin Walsh (2020) “Sewn boats of the Swahili coast: The mtepe and the dau reconsidered”, in Kenya Past and Present, number 47, pages 23-32

• Bob Holtzman (2009 June 24) “What's a Dhow?”, in Indigenous Boats‎

Borrowed from Arabic .

dau class V (plural madau class VI)

1. a prize pool

dau

1. leaf

• George W. Grace, Notes on the phonological history of the Austronesian languages of the Sarmi Coast, in Oceanic Linguistics (1971, 10:11-37)

dau

1. (Cire-Cire) ash

dau

1. (Cire-Cire) to burn

• Pavol Štekauer, Salvador Valera, Lívia Kőrtvélyessy, Word-Formation in the World's Languages: A Typological Survey (2012)

From Proto-Brythonic *dow, from Proto-Celtic *duwo, from Proto-Indo-European *dwóh₁.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /daɨ̯/
• (South Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA^(key): /dai̯/
  • (South Wales, colloquial) IPA^(key): /dɔi̯/
• Rhymes: -aɨ̯

dau m (feminine dwy) (triggers soft mutation)

1. (cardinal number) two

In compounds, generally takes the form deu-:

‎dau + ‎deg (“ten”) → ‎deuddeg (“twelve”).

‎dau + ‎pegwn (“pole”) → ‎deubegwn (“bipolar”).

• deuaidd (“binary”)
• deuol (“dual”)
• deusain (“diphthong”)

dau (plural deuoedd)

1. two

   Synonyms: cwpl, pâr

• yn ddau a dau (“two by two”)
• yn ddeuoedd (“in twos, in pairs”)

• R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “dau”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies