Attested since 1954. Clipping of delicatessen, from German Delikatessen, plural of Delikatesse (“delicacy, fine food”), from French délicatesse, derived from the adjective délicat, from Latin delicatus.
deli (plural delis)
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Borrowed from Turkish deli (“mad, insane”), perhaps via Serbo-Croatian dèli (“brave”).[1] Doublet of dalia.
deli (comparative delibb, superlative legdelibb)
Inflection (stem in long/high vowel, front unrounded harmony) | ||
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singular | plural | |
nominative | deli | delik |
accusative | delit | deliket |
dative | delinek | deliknek |
instrumental | delivel | delikkel |
causal-final | deliért | delikért |
translative | delivé | delikké |
terminative | deliig | delikig |
essive-formal | deliként | delikként |
essive-modal | — | — |
inessive | deliben | delikben |
superessive | delin | deliken |
adessive | delinél | deliknél |
illative | delibe | delikbe |
sublative | delire | delikre |
allative | delihez | delikhez |
elative | deliből | delikből |
delative | deliről | delikről |
ablative | delitől | deliktől |
non-attributive possessive - singular |
delié | deliké |
non-attributive possessive - plural |
deliéi | delikéi |
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deli (Cyrillic spelling дели)
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Perhaps borrowed from Turkish deli.
deli (comparative mer deli, superlative mest deli)
From Ottoman Turkish دلی (deli), from Proto-Turkic *tēlbe (“mad, crazy”). Doublet of Tilbe. Cognate of Turkmen däli, Azerbaijani dəli, Salar delli, and Tatar тиле (tile).
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Inflection | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | deli | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | deliyi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Singular | Plural | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nominative | deli | deliler | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Definite accusative | deliyi | delileri | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dative | deliye | delilere | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | delide | delilerde | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Ablative | deliden | delilerden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | delinin | delilerin | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Welsh mutation | |||
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radical | soft | nasal | aspirate |
deli | ddeli | neli | unchanged |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
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