Dee
See also: dee, dée, dèe, dêe, and -dę́ę́ʼ
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /diː/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -iː
Proper noun
Dee
- A river in Aberdeenshire council area, Scotland that flows about 145 km (90 mi) from the Cairngorm Mountains to the North Sea at Aberdeen.
- A river in Wales and England that flows about 113 km (70 mi) from Snowdonia to the Irish Sea near Liverpool.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, stanza 39:
- And following Dee, which Britons long ygone / Did call divine, that doth by Chester tend; […]
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- A river in Cumbria, England, which flows through Dentdale and joins the River Rawthey near Sedbergh.
- A river in County Cavan and County Louth, Ireland.
- A female given name, short for names beginning with D.
- 1996, Maeve Binchy, This Year It Will Be Different: A Christmas Treasury, Hachette UK, published 2008, →ISBN:
- His daughter was called Deirdre, a good Irish name, but now she signed herself Dee, and her man friend was called Fox.
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- A surname of multiple origins.
Derived terms
- Bangor-on-Dee
- Deeside
- Miller of Dee
Related terms
- Ardee (Ireland)
Translations
river in Scotland
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river in Wales and England
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Statistics
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Dee is the 5,535th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 6,275 individuals. Dee is most common among White (72.48%) and Asian/Pacific Islander (10.20%) individuals.
Anagrams
- Ede
Manx
Proper noun
Dee f
- a female given name, very common in the south of Mann in the 19th century
Mutation
| Manx mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| Dee | Ghee | Nee |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Tagalog
Alternative forms
- Dy, Lee, Li
Etymology
From Hokkien 李 (Lí), via English Dee, with the initial ⟨L-⟩ changed to ⟨D-⟩ due to /l/~/d/ allophony when the proceeding vowel is either, [i], [e], or [u] in Philippine Hokkien.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /di/, [dɪ]
Proper noun
Dee
- a Chinese Filipino surname from Min Nan, most notably borne by:
- Enchong Dee, Filipino actor, model, and swimmer
Statistics
According to data collected by Forebears in 2014, Dee is the 282nd most common surname in the Philippines, occurring in 26,809 individuals.
See also
- See
- Tee
- Wee
- Yee
References
- Douglas, Carstairs (1899), “D.”, in Chinese-English dictionary of the vernacular or spoken language of Amoy, London: Presbyterian Church of England, page 99