dee

• de (Northumbria)

• IPA^(key): /ˈdiː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Variant of do.

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!

• Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin “dee”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎^[1], archived from the original on 2024-09-05.
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[2]
• Template:R:Northeast Dialect 2005

dee (plural dees)

1. The name of the Latin-script letter D/d.
   • 2004, Will Rogers, The Stonking Steps, page 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), pages 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.

   • 2022 October 31, “Doomsday” (track 7, 1:53 from the start), in Kay Flock (lyrics), F L O C K A‎^[3]:

     Dotty my holster, totin on this knocker (Grrah, grrah)
     If we see the Ds, bitch, move proper

• deejay
• ecks dee

• (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

• Ede

dee

1. (interrogative) when

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

• IPA^(key): [dẽ˦ẽ˨]

dee

1. child

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

dee

1. water

• 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)

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

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 c)
3. (Cantonese, in compounds) big two

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

Cognate with Dutch die.

dee

1. (relative) who, which, that

• deeje

Compare German denn.

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)

• 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^[4], 3. geänderte Auflage edition, Norderstedt: BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 31:
• https://www.erzgebirgisch.de/d.dee_1.wort

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

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

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

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

dee

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

dee

1. day

• R. Blench, Comparative Ogonic

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

dee f

1. plural of dea

• debbe (archaic)

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

dee

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

dee

1. vocative singular of deus

From Latin deus.

• (Western, Milanese) IPA^(key): /deː/
• Hyphenation: dee

dee m (feminine deja, masculine plural dee, feminine plural deje) (New Lombard Orthography)

1. god, deity

   Synonym: dia

dee

1. first-person singular past of doon

• dy, di, dei, de, dey

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

• IPA^(key): /deː/, /diː/, /dæi̯/

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.

• English: die; dice
• Scots: die; dice

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

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.

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^[5]:

     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.

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

1. Doric Scots form of dae (“to do”)

   Fit ye deein?

   What are you doing?

   • 1875, William Alexander, Sketches of Life Among My Ain Folk, page 51:

     "A twa-horse wark, maybe? or dee ye make it oot wi' ae beast an' an owse?"

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

dee

1. to carry

• Ulrike Mosel, The Teop sketch grammar

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

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

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• IPA^(key): /d̪eː/

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 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

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[6], Pacific linguistics

Variant orthographies

ALIV	dee
Brazilian standard	dee
New Tribes	dee

• IPA^(key): [deː]

dee

1. (Cunucunuma River dialect) Alternative form of iye (“wood, tree”)

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

• IPA^(key): /diː/
• Homophone: die

dee (simple past deeth)

1. to die

• deed

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) 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, published 1867, page 33