did
See also: Did, DID, did-, and -did
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dɪd/
Audio (CA) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪd
Verb
did
- simple past tense of do
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, page 254:
- Then ſhe with liquors ſtrong his eies did ſteepe, / That nothing ſhould him haſtily awake […]
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- (nonstandard, especially Southern US, African-American Vernacular) past participle of do
- 2008 March 1, Jody Miller, Getting Played: African American Girls, Urban Inequality, and Gendered Violence, NYU Press, →ISBN, page 140:
- […] But I don't care, I mean I don't even care. She shouldn't have did that."
- 2010 October 10, Jeanette R Davidson, quoting Bea Jenkins, African American Studies, Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, page 189:
- We have to take this brutality. We haven't did anything. Why?
- 2014 May 6, Taylor Anderson, Deadly Shores, Penguin, →ISBN, page 288:
- “Spanky—I mean, the exec, Mr. McFaarlane, say the number four gun has did for another cruiser, but they all gonna drown, aft, as much water as the screws is throwin' up!"
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Anagrams
- DDI, I/DD, IDD, ddI, idd
Danish
Adverb
did
- (archaic) thither, to there, towards that place
Synonyms
- dertil
Coordinate terms
- hid, der
Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈdʲɪdʲ/
Noun
did f (genitive singular dide, nominative plural dideanna)
- Alternative form of dide (“teat, nipple”)
Declension
Declension of did
Second declension
Bare forms
| Forms with the definite article
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Mutation
Irish mutation | ||
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Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
did | dhid | ndid |
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. |
Further reading
- G. Toner, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, S. Arbuthnot, D. Wodtko, M.-L. Theuerkauf, editors (2019), “did”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language
- Dinneen, Patrick S. (1904), “did”, in Foclóir Gaeḋilge agus Béarla, 1st edition, Dublin: Irish Texts Society, page 240
- Finck, F. N. (1899), Die araner mundart, Marburg: Elwert’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, vol. II, p. 81.
- Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “did”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN
Lombard
Etymology
Akin to Italian dito, from Latin digitus.
Noun
did
- finger
Norwegian Nynorsk
Pronoun
did
- Obsolete spelling of de (“you (plural)”)
Old Welsh
Etymology
From Proto-Brythonic *dið, from Proto-Celtic *dīyos (“day”) (compare Old Irish día), from Proto-Indo-European *dyḗws, *dyew-.
Noun
did m
- day
Descendants
- Middle Welsh: dyð
- Welsh: dydd
Romagnol
Pronunciation
- (Central Romagnol): IPA(key): [ˈdiːd]
Noun
did m (plural) (Ravenna)
- finger
Serbo-Croatian
Alternative forms
- djȅd (Ijekavian)
- dȅda, dȅd (Ekavian)
Etymology
From Proto-Slavic *dědъ.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dîd/
Noun
dȉd m (Cyrillic spelling ди̏д)
- (Ikavian) grandfather
Declension
Declension of did
singular | plural | |
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nominative | dȉd | dìdovi/didi |
genitive | dida | didova/dida |
dative | didu | didovima/didima |
accusative | dida | didove/dide |
vocative | dide | didovi/didi |
locative | didu | didovima/didima |
instrumental | didom | didovima/didima |
Slavomolisano
Etymology
From Ikavian Serbo-Croatian did.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /dîd/
Noun
did m
- grandfather
Declension
declension of did (anim series-1b masc cons-stem)
singular | plural | |
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nominative | did | dida |
genitive | dida | did, didi |
dative | didu | didami, didi |
accusative | did, dida | dida |
locative | didu | dida |
instrumental | didom, didam | didami, didi |
References
- Walter Breu and Giovanni Piccoli (2000), Dizionario croato molisano di Acquaviva Collecroce: Dizionario plurilingue della lingua slava della minoranza di provenienza dalmata di Acquaviva Collecroce in Provincia di Campobasso (Parte grammaticale).
Yola
Verb
did
- simple past tense of doone
- 1867, “THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3:
- Maade a nicest coolecannan that e'er ye did zee.
- Made the nicest coolecannan that ever you did see.
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Derived terms
- didn'st
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 94