dej

From Proto-Albanian *duai-au, from Proto-Indo-European *duo-, from the root *du (“two”). Cognate to Old High German zweio (“by, in two, in pairs”). A frozen locative dual form.^[1]

dej

1. after (tomorrow)

• deh

From Proto-Albanian *deni̯ō, from Proto-Indo-European *dheh1- (“to suck, drink”). Cognate to Sanskrit धयति (dháyati, “to suck”) and Latvian det (“to suck”). Present deh, dej arose secondarily under the influence of the non-active paradigm.^[2]

dej (aorist dejta, participle dejtur)

1. (to get) drunk

• IPA^(key):

dej

1. second-person singular imperative of dát

From Old Danish degh, from Old Norse deigr, from Proto-Germanic *daigaz, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeyǵʰ- (“to mold”). Compare Swedish deg, Norwegian Nynorsk deig, German Teig, West Frisian daai, Dutch deeg, English dough.

• IPA^(key): /daːj/
• Rhymes: -ajˀ

dej c (singular definite dejen, plural indefinite deje)

1. dough (mix of flour and water)
2. paste (flour, fat, or similar ingredients used in making pastry)
3. batter (a beaten mixture of flour and liquid, usually egg and milk, used for baking)

• “dej” in Den Danske Ordbog

dej

1. inflection of diet:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. third-person plural present indicative
   3. second-person singular imperative
2. (with the particle lai) third-person singular imperative of diet
3. (with the particle lai) third-person plural imperative of diet

• IPA^(key): /dɛj/,

dej m inan

1. The name of the Latin-script letter d/D.

dej

1. third-person singular present of dejaś

• (Latin-script letter names) a, bej, cej, čet, ćej, dej, ej, ět, ef, gej, ha, cha, i, jot, ka, eł, el, em, en, ejn, o, pej, er, ejŕ, es, eš, śej, tej, u, wej, y, zet, žet, źej

• IPA^(key):

dej m inan (relational adjective dejový)

1. plot, storyline
2. process

   Synonym: proces

• dejovo, dejove
• dejovosť

• “dej”, in Slovníkový portál Jazykovedného ústavu Ľ. Štúra SAV [Dictionary portal of the Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics, Slovak Academy of Science] (in Slovak), https://slovnik.juls.savba.sk, 2003–2025

dej

1. (colloquial) Pronunciation spelling of dig.
   • 1989, Eva Dahlgren, “Ängeln i rummet [The angel in the room]”‎:

     Det bor en ängel i mitt rum. Hon har sitt bo ovanför mitt huvud. Hon gör mej lugn. Och hon viskar till mej allt det jag säger dej.

     There is an angel living in my room . She has her dwelling above my head. She puts me at ease . And she whispers to me all the things that I say to you.

Popular (along with mej) as a semi-informal spelling around the 1970s to 1980s, and therefore seen in many old song lyrics for example. Usage has now mostly reverted back to dig.

• mej

dej f

1. mother

• Boretzky, Norbert, Igla, Birgit (1994) “dej”, in Wörterbuch Romani-Deutsch-Englisch für den südosteuropäischen Raum : mit einer Grammatik der Dialektvarianten [Romani-German-English dictionary for the Southern European region] (in German), Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN, page 66
• Marcel Courthiade (2009) “e d/ej², -ia ʒ. -ia, -ien = e d/ej³, -a ʒ. -a, -en”, in Melinda Rézműves, editor, Morri angluni rromane ćhibǎqi evroputni lavustik = Első rromani nyelvű európai szótáram : cigány, magyar, angol, francia, spanyol, német, ukrán, román, horvát, szlovák, görög [My First European-Romani Dictionary: Romani, Hungarian, English, French, Spanish, German, Ukrainian, Romanian, Croatian, Slovak, Greek] (overall work in Hungarian and English), Budapest: Fővárosi Onkormányzat Cigány Ház--Romano Kher, →ISBN, page 122

From Proto-Hmong *ɢlæwᴬ (“river”),^[1] probably related to Proto-Mon-Khmer *ruŋ (“river”) and Proto-Sino-Tibetan *kl(j)u(ŋ/k) (“river, valley”);^[2] see there for more.

• IPA^(key): /de˥˧/

dej (classifier: tus (for streams and watercourses))

1. water
2. stream, river

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 34.