dee

dee

See also: Dee, dée, dèe, dêe, and -dę́ę́ʼ

English

Alternative forms

• de (Northumbria)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Etymology 1

Variant of do.

Verb

dee (third-person singular simple present diz, present participle deein, simple past and past participle dyun)

1. (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

Noun

dee (plural dees)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter D.
   • 2004 Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, p. 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), p. 3-5

     IED [is spoken] as "eye-ee-dee" instead of "I SPELL India Echo Delta Romeo".

2. Something shaped like the letter D, such as a dee lock.

   the pommel is furnished with dees.

3. (colloquial) Police detective.

   the dees are about.

Derived terms

• deejay

Translations

name of the letter D, d

Arabic: دِي‎ m (dī) Burmese: ဒီ (my) (di) Catalan: de (ca) f Chinese: Cantonese: dog (dok1) (Hong Kong Cantonese) Mandarin: (English letter names are called as in English, no other standard Mandarin name exists) Esperanto: do (eo) Finnish: dee (fi) French: dé (fr) m Galician: de (gl) m Greek: ντι n (di) Hawaiian: dē Hindi: डी (ḍī) Icelandic: dé Ido: de (io) Irish: dé (ga), dair f Japanese: ディー (dī) Korean: 디 (ko) (di) Latin: dē (la) Malay: di (ms) Marathi: डी (ḍī) Occitan: de (oc) f Persian: د‎ (fa) (de), دی‎ (fa) (di) (english) Portuguese: dê (pt) m Russian: ди (ru) n (di) (English), дэ (ru) n (dɛ) Spanish: de (es) f Thai: ดี (th) (dii) Turkish: de (tr) Vietnamese: dê (vi), dờ Welsh: di f

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

• Tweedle-dee
• whoop-dee-do
• whoop-dee-doo
• whoop dee doo
• zip-a-dee-doo-dah

 

Anagrams

• Ede

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Aiwoo

Adverb

dee

1. (interrogative) when

References

• Ross, M. & Næss, Å. (2007), “An Oceanic origin for Äiwoo, the language of the Reef Islands?”, in Oceanic Linguistics, volume 46, issue 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.

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Bambara

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [dẽ˦ẽ˨]

Noun

dee

1. child

References

• 2007. The UCLA Phonetics Lab Archive. Los Angeles, CA: UCLA Department of Linguistics.

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Chairel

Noun

dee

1. 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)

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Chinese

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium. Particularly: “From 弟?”)

Pronunciation

• Cantonese (Jyutping): di⁴, di^4-2

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• Cantonese
  • (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou)⁺
    • Jyutping: di⁴, di^4-2
    • Yale: dìh, dí
    • Cantonese Pinyin: di⁴, di^4-2
    • Guangdong Romanization: di⁴, di^4-2
    • Sinological IPA ^(key): /tiː²¹/, /tiː²¹⁻³⁵/

Noun

dee

1. (Cantonese, often in compounds) brother

   華dee／华dee [Cantonese]  ―  waa⁴ di^4-2 [Jyutping]  ―  a nickname, Brother Wah

2. (Cantonese, poker, especially in big two) the largest of the poker cards, i.e. 2 (Classifier: 隻／只)
3. (Cantonese, in compounds) big two

   dee王之王 [Cantonese]  ―  di^4-2 wong⁴ zi¹ wong⁴ [Jyutping]  ―  king of big two

Derived terms

dee dee

鋤dee／锄dee

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Dutch Low Saxon

Etymology

Cognate with Dutch die.

Pronoun

dee

1. (relative) who, which, that

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East Central German

Alternative forms

• deeje

Etymology

Compare German denn.

Adverb

dee

1. (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 932028867, page 31:

• https://www.erzgebirgisch.de/d.dee_1.wort

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Estonian

Noun

dee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

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

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Finnish

Etymology

From Latin dē (“name of the letter D”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdeː/, [ˈde̞ː]
• Rhymes: -eː
• Syllabification^(key): dee

Noun

dee

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

Declension

Inflection of dee (Kotus type 18/maa, no gradation)
nominative		dee	deet
genitive		deen	deiden deitten
partitive		deetä	deitä
illative		deehen	deihin
		singular	plural
nominative		dee	deet
accusative	nom.	dee	deet
	gen.	deen
genitive		deen	deiden deitten
partitive		deetä	deitä
inessive		deessä	deissä
elative		deestä	deistä
illative		deehen	deihin
adessive		deellä	deillä
ablative		deeltä	deiltä
allative		deelle	deille
essive		deenä	deinä
translative		deeksi	deiksi
instructive		—	dein
abessive		deettä	deittä
comitative		—	deineen

Possessive forms of dee (type maa)
possessor	singular	plural
1st person	deeni	deemme
2nd person	deesi	deenne
3rd person	deensä

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Gokana

Noun

dee

1. day

References

• R. Blench, Comparative Ogonic

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Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛ.e/, (traditional) ^*/ˈdɛ.e/[1]
• Rhymes: -ɛe
• Hyphenation: dè‧e

Noun

dee f

1. plural of dea

Alternative forms

• debbe (archaic)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdɛ.e/, /ˈde.e/[1][2]
• Rhymes: -ɛe, -ee
• Hyphenation: dè‧e, dé‧e

Verb

dee

1. (archaic, poetic or popular Tuscan) Alternative form of deve, third-person singular present indicative of dovere

References

1. dee in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
2. dovere in Bruno Migliorini et al., Dizionario d'ortografia e di pronunzia, Rai Eri, 2007

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Latin

Noun

dee

1. vocative singular of deus

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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)

1. god, deity

   Synonym: dia

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Low German

Verb

dee

1. first-person singular past of doon

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Maquiritari

Alternative forms

• (Ye'kwana) iye, ye

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [deː]

Noun

dee (De'kwana dialect)

1. wood, stick of wood
2. tree

References

• Cáceres, Natalia (2011), “iye”, in Grammaire Fonctionnelle-Typologique du Ye’kwana, Lyon, page 24, 170, 221, 279, 286, 343, 361, 370, 415
• Hall, Katherine Lee (1988), “de:”, in The morphosyntax of discourse in De'kwana Carib, volume 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

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• dy, di, dei, de, dey

Etymology

From Old French dé, from Latin datum. Cognate with French dé.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /deː/, /diː/, /dɛi̯/

Noun

dee (plural dees)

1. A die or dice (cube used in games and gambling)
2. A game which utilises or employs dice.
3. (rare) A piece or cube of diced food.
4. (rare) Something of little value.

Descendants

• English: die, dice
• Scots: die, dice

References

• “dẹ̄, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-06-17.

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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)

1. 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.

Verb

dee (third-person singular simple present dees, present participle deein, simple past dee'd, past participle dee'd)

1. Doric form of dae (“to do”)

   Fit ye deein?

   What are you doing?

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Teop

Verb

dee

1. to carry

References

• Ulrike Mosel, The Teop sketch grammar

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Võro

Noun

dee (genitive [please provide], partitive [please provide])

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

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

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West Makian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d̪eː/

Verb

dee

1. (intransitive) to arrive

   dee pe ― to arrive at

2. (intransitive) to reach
3. (intransitive) to be enough, sufficient

   idee yo ― it is not enough (literally, “it does not reach”)

Conjugation

Conjugation of dee (action verb)
		singular	plural
			inclusive	exclusive
1st person		tedee	medee	adee
2nd person		nedee	fedee
3rd person	inanimate	idee	dedee
	animate
imperative		nedee, dee	fedee, dee

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

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Yola

Etymology

From Middle English deyen, from Old English dīeġan, from Old Norse deyja, from Proto-West Germanic *dauwjan.

Verb

dee (simple past deeth)

1. to die

Related terms

• deed

References

• Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 33