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English
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Variant of do.
Verb
dee (third-person singular simple present diz, present participle deein, simple past and past participle dyun)
- (Northumbria) To do.
What are ye deein man!
References
- Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin,
- Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977
- A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
Etymology 2
Noun
dee (plural dees)
- The name of the Latin-script letter D.
2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 170:I have drunk en-ee-cee-tee-ay-ar from the ef-ell-oh-doubleyou-ee-ar-ess in his gee-ay-ar-dee-ee-en many a time.
2016, CCEB, Communications Instructions Radiotelephone Procedures: ACP125 (G), pages 3–5:IED [is spoken] as "eye-ee-dee" instead of "I SPELL India Echo Delta Romeo".
- Something shaped like the letter D, such as a dee lock.
the pommel is furnished with dees.
- (colloquial) Police detective.
the dees are about.
2022 October 31, “Doomsday” (track 7, 1:53 from the start), in Kay Flock (lyrics), F L O C K A:Dotty my holster, totin on this knocker (Grrah, grrah)
If we see the Ds, bitch, move proper
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- (Latin-script letter names) letter; a, bee, cee, dee, e, ef, gee, aitch, i, jay, kay, el, em, en, o, pee, cue, ar, ess, tee, u, vee, double-u, ex, wye, zee / zed
See also
Anagrams
Aiwoo
Adverb
dee
- (interrogative) when
References
- Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007) “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, number 2. Cited in: "Äiwoo" in Greenhill, S.J., Blust, R., & Gray, R.D. (2008). The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics. Evolutionary Bioinformatics, 4:271–283.
Bambara
Pronunciation
Noun
dee
- child
References
Chairel
Noun
dee
- water
References
- W. McCulloch, Account of the Valley of Munnipore and of the Hill tribes with a comparative vocabulary of the Munnipore and other languages (1859, Calcutta: Bengal Printing Company)
Chinese
Etymology
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Pronunciation
Noun
dee
- (Cantonese, often in compounds) brother
- 華dee／华dee [Cantonese] ― waa4 di4-2 ― a nickname, Brother Wah
- (Cantonese, poker, especially in big two) the largest of the poker cards, i.e. 2 (Classifier: 隻／只 c)
- (Cantonese, in compounds) big two
- dee王之王 [Cantonese] ― di4-2 wong4 zi1 wong4 ― king of big two
Derived terms
Dutch Low Saxon
Etymology
Cognate with Dutch die.
Pronoun
dee
- (relative) who, which, that
East Central German
Alternative forms
Etymology
Compare German denn.
Adverb
dee
- (Erzgebirgisch) (in a question, modal particle) then, ever, but, now (used for emphasis or to express interest, surprise or doubt, or in rhetorical questions)
References
2020 June 11, Hendrik Heidler, Hendrik Heidler's 400 Seiten: Echtes Erzgebirgisch: Wuu de Hasen Hoosn haaßn un de Hosen Huusn do sei mir drhamm: Das Original Wörterbuch: Ratgeber und Fundgrube der erzgebirgischen Mund- und Lebensart: Erzgebirgisch – Deutsch / Deutsch – Erzgebirgisch, 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 31: - https://www.erzgebirgisch.de/d.dee_1.wort
Estonian
Noun
dee (genitive , partitive )
- The name of the Latin-script letter D.
Finnish
Etymology
From Latin dē (“name of the letter D”).
Pronunciation
Noun
dee
- The name of the Latin-script letter D.
Declension
Gokana
Noun
dee
- day
References
Italian
Etymology 1
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdɛ.e/, (traditional) */ˈdɛ.e/
- Rhymes: -ɛe
- Hyphenation: dè‧e
Noun
dee f
- plural of dea
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdɛ.e/, /ˈde.e/
- Rhymes: -ɛe, -ee
- Hyphenation: dè‧e, dé‧e
Verb
dee
- (archaic, poetic or popular Tuscan) Alternative form of deve, third-person singular present indicative of dovere
References
Latin
Noun
dee
- vocative singular of deus
Lombard
Etymology
From Latin deus.
Pronunciation
- (Western, Milanese) IPA(key): /deː/
- Hyphenation: dee
Noun
dee m (feminine deja, masculine plural dee, feminine plural deje) (New Lombard Orthography)
- god, deity
- Synonym: dia
Low German
Verb
dee
- first-person singular past of doon
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old French dé, from Latin datum. Cognate with French dé.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /deː/, /diː/, /dæi̯/
Noun
dee (plural dees)
- A die or dice (cube used in games and gambling)
- A game which utilises or employs dice.
- (rare) A piece or cube of diced food.
- (rare) Something of little value.
Descendants
References
Scots
Etymology 1
Middle English, from Old English dīġan (“to die”), from Proto-West Germanic *dauwjan (“to die”).
Compare English die, Danish dø, Norwegian Nynorsk døy, Norwegian Bokmål dø, Icelandic deyja, Swedish dö, Faroese doyggja.
Verb
dee (third-person singular simple present dees, present participle deein, simple past dee'd, past participle dee'd)
- to die
1852-1859, Lady John Scott (lyrics and music), “Annie Laurie”, in Scottish Songs:Maxwelton braes are bonnie, / Where early fa's the dew, / And its there that Annie Laurie, / Gie'd me her promise true / Gie'd me her promise true, / Which ne'er forgot shall be, / And for bonnie Annie Laurie / I'd lay me doon and dee.- Maxwelton hills are pretty, / Where early falls the dew, / And it's there that Annie Laurie, / Gave me her promise true / Gave me her promise true, / Which never forgot shall be, / And for pretty Annie Laurie / I'd lay myself down and die.
Etymology 2
Verb
dee (third-person singular simple present dees, present participle deein, simple past dee'd, past participle dee'd)
- Doric form of dae (“to do”)
Fit ye deein?- What are you doing?
1875, William Alexander, Sketches of Life Among My Ain Folk, page 51:
Teop
Verb
dee
- to carry
References
Võro
Noun
dee (genitive , partitive )
- The name of the Latin-script letter D.
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
West Makian
Pronunciation
Verb
dee
- (intransitive) to arrive
- dee pe ― to arrive at
- (intransitive) to reach
- (intransitive) to be enough, sufficient
- idee yo ― it is not enough (literally, “it does not reach”)
Conjugation
References
- Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours, Pacific linguistics
Ye'kwana
Alternative forms
- iye, ye (Caura River dialect)
Etymology
From Proto-Cariban *jôje (“tree, wood”).
Pronunciation
Noun
dee (Cunucunuma River dialect)
- wood, stick of wood
- tree
References
- Cáceres, Natalia (2011) “iye”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, pages 24, 170, 221, 279, 286, 343, 361, 370, 415
- Hall, Katherine Lee (1988) “de:”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volumes I and II, Saint Louis, Missouri: PhD Thesis, Washington University
- Hall, Katherine (2007) “dē”, in Mary Ritchie Key & Bernard Comrie, editors, The Intercontinental Dictionary Series, Leipzig: Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, published 2021
Yola
Etymology
From Middle English deyen, from Old English dīeġan, from Old Norse deyja, from Proto-West Germanic *dauwjan.
Pronunciation
Verb
dee (simple past deeth)
- to die
Related 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 33