dir

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Translingual

Symbol

dir

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Dirim.

See also

English

Alternative forms

Noun

dir (plural dirs)

  1. Abbreviation of direction.
  2. (computing) Abbreviation of directory.
  3. Abbreviation of director.

Adjective

dir (not comparable)

  1. Abbreviation of direct.

Adverb

dir

  1. Abbreviation of directly.

Anagrams

Aragonese

Etymology

From Latin dicere.

Verb

dir

  1. to say

Asturian

Etymology

Inherited from Latin īre. The forms beginning with /b/ derive from corresponding conjugations of Latin vādere; those beginning with /f/ derive from forms of Latin esse.

Verb

dir

  1. to go

Conjugation

  • From OSLIN-AST Lexicón abiertu de la llingua asturiana .

Bavarian

Pronoun

dir

  1. Alternative spelling of dia (you, dative)

Breton

Pronunciation

Noun

dir m

  1. steel

Catalan

Alternative forms

Etymology

Inherited from Latin dīcere, from Proto-Italic *deikō, from Proto-Indo-European *déyḱti (to show, point out). Compare Occitan dire or díser, French dire, and Spanish decir.

Pronunciation

Verb

dir (first-person singular present dic, first-person singular preterite diguí, past participle dit)

  1. (transitive, intransitive) to say, to pronounce
  2. (transitive) to say, to tell
    Va dir una mentida.
    She told a lie.
    El dèiem que cuinés el sopar.
    We told him to cook dinner.
  3. (transitive) to call, to refer to as
  4. (reflexive) to be named, to be called
    Com et dius?What's your name?

Conjugation

Balearic has deis and Valencian has dis as the second-person plural present indicative form. This is similar to French dire having dites as the standard form instead of the expected disez, and contemporary Italian dire having dite as the standard form in place of the expected dicete.

Derived terms

Further reading

German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle High German dir, from Old High German dir, from Proto-West Germanic *þiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þiz.

Pronunciation

  • (standard) IPA(key): /diːɐ̯/
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  • Rhymes: -iːɐ̯
  • (colloquially in unstressed position) IPA(key): /dɐ/, /də/

Pronoun

dir

  1. (personal) dative of du; you, to you.
  2. (reflexive pronoun) dative of du; yourself, to yourself.

Further reading

  • dir” in Duden online

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French dire (to say).

Verb

dir

  1. (Saint-Domingue) to say, to tell
    Mo prié vou tant seulement vou pas dir personne à rien.I just ask that you don't tell anyone a thing.

Descendants

  • Haitian Creole: di

References

  • S.J Ducoeurjoly, Manuel des habitans de Saint-Domingue, contenant un précis de l'histoire de cette île

Italian

Verb

dir (apocopated)

  1. Apocopic form of dire

Luxembourgish

Alternative forms

  • der (unstressed)

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Old High German dir.

Pronoun

dir

  1. second-person singular, dative: you; thee
    Ech hunn dir e Bréif geschéckt.
    I have sent you a letter.

Etymology 2

From Old High German ir. The d- is through unetymological segmentation of the ending -t of a preceding verb (*stitt ir*stiddirstitt dir). This development was assisted by a parallelism with the 1st person, in which the dative singular mir is also the nominative plural (this latter development occurred for a similar reason, but was earlier and is widespread throughout High German).

Pronoun

dir

  1. second-person plural, nominative: you; you all; ye
    Hutt dir gutt geschlof?
    Have you slept well?
Derived terms
  • Dir (singular and plural polite form)

Declension

Old Occitan

Alternative forms

Etymology

From a contraction of Latin dīcō, dīcere.

Verb

dir

  1. to say

Descendants

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

From Middle High German dir, from Old High German dir, from Proto-West Germanic *þiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *þiz. Compare German dir.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

dir

  1. dative of du: you, to you

Declension

Romansch

Etymology 1

From Latin dūrus.

Adjective

dir m (feminine singular dira, masculine plural dirs, feminine plural diras)

  1. (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan, Rumantsch Grischun) hard
Alternative forms

Etymology 2

From a contraction of Latin dīcō, dīcere, from Proto-Italic *deikō, from Proto-Indo-European *deyḱ- (to show, point out). The origin of some forms starting with sch- likely result from regular elisions of unstressed syllables: dīcēbam*dcéβascheva.

Verb

dir

  1. to say
Conjugation
Alternative forms

Etymology 3

Noun

dir m (plural dirs)

  1. (anatomy, Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) liver
Alternative forms
Synonyms

Somali

Verb

dir

  1. send

Tolai

Pronoun

dir

  1. Third-person dual pronoun: they two, them two

Declension


Venetan

Etymology

From a contraction of Latin dīcere (compare Italian dire), present active infinitive of dīcō.

Verb

dir

  1. (transitive) to say, tell
  2. (transitive) to affirm

Conjugation

  • Venetan conjugation varies from one region to another. Hence, the following conjugation should be considered as typical, not as exhaustive.

Welsh

Pronunciation

Noun

dir

  1. Soft mutation of tir (land).

Mutation

Mutated forms of tir
radical soft nasal aspirate
tir dir nhir thir

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.